Word: senselessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...failing to include deserters, and those with less than honorable discharges, the pardon discriminates against those whose opposition to the war grew out of their horror at the senseless destruction they witnessed. Moreover, while the majority of those eligible for pardons are middle-class whites, a disproportionately large number of deserters are members of disadvantaged minority groups. Many of these people simply lacked the information or financial means to evade the draft. Any government action to heal the scars caused by Vietnam surely must include these men. It should also cover those who participated in non-violent acts such...
...answer to Beverly J. Walsh's letter, I will gladly carry the weight of those executed who are later proved innocent. It will be infinitesimal compared with the weight carried by the victims of violent and senseless crimes...
...greatest strength of Kiernan's biography is that it is more than just biography; the author carefully interweaves the story of Arafat with the Palestinian experience from post-World War I days to the present. Of course, it would be impossible and senseless to isolate Arafat's story from that of his people, but Kiernan (who just last year published a historical survey of the Middle East) interrelates the two so tightly that his book is as much the story of the movement...
...serious discussion of any issue, at least in academic terms, should include as many perspectives as possible, and denying men admission to formal courses is intellectually dishonest. If one of the purposes of women's studies is to change general attitudes toward women's roles, it is senseless to deny men--just under half of the world's population--a chance to reevaluate their ideas. Women hold up half the sky, but only half; and if there is to be any change in women's position in society, it will require a new consciousness on the part of both sexes...
...past year of strife. Still, Washington's order did not amount to outright evacuation; it simply "strongly urged" Americans to leave−part of a relatively low-key approach that envisaged the use of U.S. military force only as a last resort. The President called the killings a "senseless, outrageous brutality," but he also declared that the U.S. would not be "deterred from its search for peace by these murders." Throughout, Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger was in touch with Middle East leaders by cable, urging safe passage for any American convoy. One such convoy of about...