Word: senselessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Saar police had plenty on their hands. After German radio stations broadcast charges that the Saar Catholic Party is "in the pay of France," Saar Nazis attacked a Saar Catholic Rally, beat several Catholics senseless. Meanwhile Saar Reds went into action and Saar Nazis soon screamed for police protection, alleged that the Communists had wounded several brownshirts with carving knives...
...their generals. Will it always be thus? Alas, yes, until men begin to ask why they are fighting and refuse to give way to an indefinite emotional sentiment instilled in them by men who sit in easy chairs miles behind the line of action and direct the merciless and senseless slaughter...
...back home. Along San Francisco's Embarcadero strikers picketed all day, all night, 1,000 at a time. To break the strike snipping companies hired college boys, paid them $15 a day. At Seattle 15 men boarded a tug, cornered the crew in the "glory hole," beat them senseless with hammers and clubs, took their money and scuttled the ship. Desperate, the Seattle Times splashed a full-page editorial across its front page : SEATTLE SHALL NOT DIE! To the West Coast went Joseph P. Ryan, big, hard-boiled president of I. L. A. He permitted a temporary lifting...
...senseless loss of life, the utterly unjustifiable imposition of human suffering and the meaningless destruction of the best resources in men and material of these two countries have already endured far too long. I do most wholeheartedly urge the Council to seize this opportunity of bringing them...
...tale of a 12th Century troubadour rarely makes sense as a story about human beings. By dint of piling on medieval facts and such medieval words as bliaut, destrier, devinalh, joc-partitz, tenson, Author Cronyn has built a massive keep whose outlines are impressive but inside are only senseless shadows. Peire Vidal, famed troubadour who actually lived until Author Cronyn began to put him down on paper, was the cast-off son of a furrier in Toulouse. Awkward and ugly, but with the gift of song, he soon made a name for himself. From court to castle he went...