Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...equal, if not greater, concern to the Soviet General Staff, however, is their belief that the Americans have found a means of denaturing gasoline or rendering it useless by atomic bombing when the oilfields are located near the sea-which is the case with most Soviet oilfields, particularly those around Baku. If the Baku deposits were rendered useless by A-bombing of the sea nearby, there could be no three-dimensional warfare, for this, of course, involves tremendous consumption of gasoline...
...asked you what you would do if you were flying to the moon, and halfway up you met a friend who was flying to the moon, and he asked you what you were doing there-why you'd say that was all impossible. It would be useless to answer the question...
...Reynolds '15, administrative vice-president, who, the Council alleged, is responsible for the ruling, for a conference with the Council was turned down. It was reported that Reynolds told the Council he was more than ever convinced he had made the right decision and that further consultation would be useless...
...last week "narrates the trip of Doña Eva Perón to Spain with such bad taste, stupid style, lack of good behavior, so boorishly in sum that we find ourselves obliged as well-born people to declare our profound contempt, our nausea, not only at the useless falsehoods this narration contains but at its grossness, coarseness, its undissimulated irritation and its lack of respect for a lady, the wife of the chief of a state...
...bombing over Germany could be accomplished in a matter of hours in the next war. Yet, under the U.M.T. plan, it would take a year to mobilize "an effective force of around 7,500,000!" It appears, then, that having a nation of men with basic training would be useless, for under atomic, chemical and bacterial invasion we could never get them mobilized...