Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forty minutes after the cobra struck, Mrs. Wiley was in Long Beach Municipal Hospital. The only antivenom serum there was from North American snakes, and useless for cobra bites. Her throat muscles had begun to contract ominously. Mrs. Wiley, now almost unconscious, shook her head hopelessly. She was put into an iron lung, but it was too late; the paralysis was creeping through her chest. When it reached her heart muscles, an hour and forty minutes after she had been bitten, Grace Wiley died...
...wanted to. But his staff had carried on an assiduous underground operation, their eyes always on 1948. They cultivated contacts in key states, formed alliances which would be useful later, collected intelligence reports on local problems, local people. The Wisconsin and Nebraska primaries almost made all this work useless. Tom Dewey looked like a gone goose. He was told that if he wanted the nomination, he would have to go after it-and hard. He did. In Oregon's rainy spring he made 92 speeches in 20 days, made obeisance to every traditional ritual of the successful campaigner...
...silver & gold, diamonds & rubies. Explorers soon found that this icy, inky tributary of the St. Lawrence was no Northwest Passage: it was navigable for only 80 miles. Above the Indian village of Chicoutimi, "the end of the deep water," the river ran white and turbulent-and, it seemed, useless-from Lake St. John...
...chief virtue is that they are handmade and therefore obviously very expensive. To show that he can afford to be "conspicuously wasteful," he turns a stretch of productive pasture into a non-productive park, boots out the "useful" cow that grazes there and replaces it with a herd of useless deer...
...make-work requirement in many newspaper contracts with printers. Advertisements which are set up outside a newspaper and plates or mats of them sent in must be reset in the newspaper composing room. The duplicated type, unused, is then thrown into the "hell box." The I.T.U. contends that this useless make-work is the only way it can assure jobs for all its members...