Word: senselessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...embassy compound were leveled and buried in a welter of rubble. None of the utilities was operating. Streetcar and light wires dangled from poles. A few women dipped water from manholes in gourds fastened to long poles. The capitol building, which the Reds had fired last autumn in a senseless act of spiteful arson, had its lobby fouled by manure from horses stabled there by the enemy. The Communists had made no preparation for a street fight. There were no sandbag barricades, no new pillboxes, rifle pits or foxholes. But the retreating Reds had looted the city again, although this...
...Cluttered & Tangled." To ex-Schoolmaster Whitman, U.S. education in the mid-19th Century was bogged down in "precedent, old times, and respectability," was "cluttered and tangled up with a thousand senseless notions and stupidities." Almost everywhere the whip was used "to crush and tame the mettlesome, soothe the feverish and nervous, reduce the spirits where they are too high, and transform impertinence and obstinacy to mildness and soft obedience." Schools had become "penitential purgatories," and teachers "identified with a dozen unpleasant . . . associations-a sour face, a whip, hard knuckles snapped on tender heads . . ." It was not only whips and sour...
...next diversion came when two forwards leaped into the air to head the ball, headed each other instead, and fell senseless to the ground. This produced the greatest enthusiasm of the day among the crowd, who rose cheering clapping and laughing. It was the signal for the lady next to me to produce a large bottle of Chianti and pass it around to her neighbors...
...murder of Robert Doyle, which the Indonesian government called "sad and senseless," brought mournful tributes from those who had known and valued...
...injecting 40 cc of air into the veins of his cancer-ridden patient, Mrs. Abbie Borroto, Dr. Sander had committed a "morally reprehensible action," and had violated his obligations to his patient and his profession,.said the board. The injection, Sander had testified, was "a senseless act" and not a mercy killing. But no physician, said the board, "can be allowed to perform a senseless act." Two New Hampshire hospitals promptly dropped Dr. Sander from their staffs (two Roman Catholic hospitals had already barred him for life), and the American Academy of General Practice announced he would be suspended from...