Word: senselessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congress Party drafted a resolution condemning the bombing: "It is the most horrible tragedy in man's recorded history. A small country whose valiant people desire nothing more than achieving their national identity are being subjected to indiscriminate bombing of the civilian population in a senseless desire to impose the will of an outside power...
Paradoxically, the cause of labor peace has been helped by the Pay Board's stand against wage-and-benefit increases that exceed its 5.5% guideline. Unionists seem to have concluded that it is senseless to march the picket lines for weeks in order to win fat raises that the Pay Board will disallow. If the Pay Board's authority is gutted, though, many more union chiefs may call strikes for inflationary wage gains, especially if they feel that living costs will jump. Thus effective controls will continue to be needed...
Most of the Tech penalties were senseless, as they picked up two charging infractions and one for interference...
ACROSS 110TH STREET. It is tempting to call this bit of New York City crime busting a new low in senseless brutality, racial exploitation and pandering to an audience. However, it only fits a pattern set by such sleazy predecessors as Cool Breeze and Super Fly. Three black hoods who are down on their luck knock over a numbers bank in Harlem, getting away with $300,000 and killing a couple of cops and a gaggle of gangsters. The constabulary, the Mafia and the black crime organization that ran the bank each embark on a separate campaign to bring...
...living happily in a foster home after his parents declared they could not provide for him. Then his parents changed their minds, and social workers returned the boy-even though he expressed fear of his father. Four months later, according to police, the father beat the boy senseless. Johnny's skull was crushed. After lying for four weeks in a coma, he died. As a result, an Illinois senate committee has been holding hearings on whether to change child-care laws to resemble those of California, where "due weight" is given to the child's own wishes about...