Word: senselessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soldiers were dispirited. "There were lots of people in Bravo company [which had borne the brunt of the casualties] who were going to refuse to go up again," one soldier said. "There'd been low morale, but never before so low-because we felt it was all so senseless." Two other battalions from the 101st and a battalion from the Vietnamese 1st Division were brought up as reinforcements. On May 18, two battalions-all of their men loaded down with 40 magazines of rifle ammunition-tried again, and were thrown back just short of the crest in a blinding...
...Orders. The reaction in Washington came quickly. Mindful of similar assaults in the past-when hills were taken at high cost and then quickly abandoned-Senator Edward Kennedy charged that it was "both senseless and irresponsible to continue to send our young men to their deaths to capture hills and positions that have no relation to this conflict." After initial hesitation, the Army fought back, describing the battle as a "tremendous, gallant victory." Major General Melvin Zais, commander of the 101st, observed that "the only significance of Hill 937 was the fact that there were North Vietnamese...
...series of unintelligible crimes, and in marches the prisoner, to be thrust into his cell by a buffoon of a turnkey with baggy pantaloons and clown makeup. Suddenly the two of them are waltzing around the cell together to appropriate music. The whole play is like that-sudden and senseless as a dream...
...good of exalting the 'greatness of man' simply because the concerted efforts of technicians, soldiers and politicians manage to put a man on the moon while four-fifths of the human race remains in abject misery, not properly clothed or fed, in lives subject to arbitrary and senseless manipulations by politicians or violence at the hands of police, hoodlums or revolutionaries? Certainly the possibilities and the inherent nobility of man are stupendous, but it is small help to crow about it when the celebration of his theoretic greatness does nothing to help him find himself as an ordinary...
...cabinet ministers and army officers. In the 1920's officials did not answer demonstrators with the granting of civilian review boards but with machine gun fire and wholesale executions. The playwright could not conceive of the revolutionaries as alleviating social conditions in any way, but only as adding more senseless suffering...