Word: senselessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are also indications that economics will finish this senseless slaughter. Consumers have enhanced the horse's value for pleasure instead of meat. The people wanting cheaper riding horses end up competing with the meat...
...will not be at the expense of our old friends." Yet, while the U.S. defense commitment to Taiwan is legally binding and U.S. emotional ties are strong, the Chiang government's importance in world affairs is small. The pretense that Chiang is the leader of China has long been senseless. The U.S. cannot ignore the fact that Taiwan has a thriving free economy and one of the largest non-Communist armed forces in Asia. Nevertheless, America's practical military and political stake in the island is strictly limited. Recently the Defense Department suggested that nuclear weapons to be banned from...
...during the height of the battle, saw an arm floating magically through the air with no person attached to it, watched in horror as a chicken cautiously circled the corpse of a child and prepared to peck the eyes out. A bullet nicked her; an exploding shell blasted her senseless. Von Demandowsky was a married man, but as the world broke up around them, the lovers in a final grand romantic gesture persuaded an officer to marry them. After they were captured by the Russians, Hilde escaped at the insistence of her "husband" (he survived, but she never...
...killer's bullet. Popular with her classmates, she had starred on the girls' basketball and track teams and had received a specially created award for her school spirit. She had been planning to attend nearby Mississippi Valley State College in the fall. "It was a senseless act of violence," said Drew Mayor W.O. Williford. "It's just unexplainable...
...preparations for the Senior Dinner this year. we were aware of the disastrous food fight that had occurred the year before in the Palmer-Dixon Courts. We tried to do everything to prevent a reoccurrence of this incident but there were a few irresponsible seniors who indulged in this senseless activity last Thursday night. This was totally inexcusable. Not only was this rowdy group who initiated the raucous food fight rude to our guests who graciously agreed to present a program but also inconsiderate of possible damage to the paintings. Plans for future Senior Dinners should be terminated if their...