Word: senselessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time since Dien Bien Phu, the armies of North Vietnam have moved en masse against a Western power intent on ruling in their country. The current offensive in Vietnam is not politically senseless, nor is it an exercise in random brutality; it is firmly rooted in the political torment and human anguish that have been created by American policy. And we can only hope that the Americans and their South Vietnamese mercenaries will suffer the same fate as did the French...
...long long time someone took the time to state in a dignified and rational way some of the matters concerning the department. I refer, of course, to your THIRD PAGE and "counterpoint." Now I could nitpick about the placement of Professor Turner's article, but that would be senseless...
...Catholic M.P. Bernadette Devlin, who a few weeks ago angrily stated that she "would not shed a single tear" for any British soldiers killed in revenge, admitted that the act of retaliation had gone "horrifically wrong." In Dublin, Irish Republican Prime Minister John Lynch "unreservedly" condemned "this cowardly and senseless...
...Mexico? And, after all, what's wrong with that? In America, in 1972, one person may encounter a hundred others with whom he could fairly happily spend the rest of his life-or at least ten years. One at a time is all you need, so it's senseless to try to make a rational decision, to foresee the ten years with that one person, to imagine the ten years with all the possible others...
Only the sergeant remains calm. He killed out of anger, and is perfectly willing to pay for it. But nothing is simple any more. Justice gets lost in a welter of lawyers' ambitions and personal problems, fatal misunderstandings, official deception and senseless violence. Anything resembling youthful idealism, compassion or hope either gets destroyed or freaks...