Word: senselessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assault on Kerrigan made a kind of crude competitive sense -- a product of ambition, anxiety and greed -- many of the sad stories that led up to the Games seemed, by contrast, altogether senseless. They involved suffering that could bring no one any gain...
Maybe all of this is actually senseless and no use to explain to anybody outside Sarajevo. Nothing here can be explained to anybody who isn't here. The questions that reach us from outside, even from our closest ones scattered around the world, seem ever more meaningless, less reasonable, more stupid. We have less and less nerve or ability to answer those questions, to say anything, to explain anything. We have become a ghetto with its own logic, its own laws, its own morality and its own imagination. And of course, its own malice, intolerance and nastiness...
...nation of a tremendous burden. Today, with Nixon's precedent, a president should have no compunction about withdrawing forces from an unsuccessful mission. The Soviet Union learned the same lesson in Afghanistan, and much too late. When the objective is to remove a bloody tyrant or stop a senseless territorial war, at least the noble attempt will have been made...
Among the new films in the show are "HospitalHell" featuring "Rick the Dick," a characterdestined to become popular for his mumbling cursesand senseless spite. David Koresh makesappearances in two films, "Chainsaw Bob in a CULTClassic," and the latest "Nana and Lil' Puss" filmin which Nana goes to Heaven...
...could have been mushy about the bonding spirit of being a Crimson sports writer, of working yourself senseless and coming back for more. My fellow sports editors through the years--Peter, Gary, Dan, Ted, John and Tarek--shared the same perverse masochism and the same hope that we could be respected for all we gave (our hearts, our minds, our GPAs) to The Crimson and, we trust, to Harvard...