Word: thoughtlessness
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...stultifying task of transcribing lecture notes. Since lectures often serve as a major source of information in courses, the student feels an obligation to "get everything down." The result is an aching, sweaty palm, quite often a muddled idea of the points in the lecture, and an hour of thoughtless stenography. At the end of an hour of furious scribbling, it is virtually impossible for most students to collect their thoughts enough to ask an intelligent question. Even if a relevant question does occur to them in mid-lecture, it is highly likely that it will slip their minds...
...effect for years before the Eisenhower Administration" must be restored. Watersheds, public lands, national forests and parks, minerals and the soil must all be protected more rigorously against those who would exploit them. "This administration," said Adlai at Denver, "shows tender solicitude for the great private corporations but thoughtless disregard for the public's property, our public forests, our public lands, our national parks and our precious resources...
...afraid the accident may precipitate another really great tragedy-a change in the Marine Corps' basic training methods. The Corps doesn't just teach a man how to fight, it makes a fighter out of him. I only hope that thoughtless political pressure will not cause the Marines to change certain traditional training techniques, which are instrumental in molding the fighting Marine who emerges from boot camp...
...anniversary will be observed in a spirit close to the one which inspired him to make his pioneer achievements in psychoanalysis. In the past few months, a large number of critical evaluations of the philosophical and social implications of his work have appeared. Conspicuously absent from them, is the thoughtless adulation Freud never allowed himself...
...group has turned upon Nixon as the man who stopped Hiss's triumphal march and helped to vindicate Chambers. If ever there was a flagrant case of the truth's being twisted by knaves (the real Communists and their conscious sympathizers) to set a trap for the thoughtless and the unwary, this is it. You deserve great credit for beginning to clear...