Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Connecticut's Representative Clare Boothe Luce, whose only daughter was killed in a 1944 California motor accident, spoke as one who had experienced the "heartbreak . . . of such tragedy . . . of needless and useless traffic deaths," and called on U.S. communities to regard traffic violators as "potential murderers...
...crack syphilologist, Dr. Joseph Earle Moore, trotted into the open a meager collection of recently discovered facts about penicillin (until now blanketed by wartime security): 1) instead of only one type of penicillin, there are at least four (arbitrarily named G, F, X, K); 2) type K is virtually useless because it is destroyed within the body so fast (in less than an hour) that it can't get set for a knockout punch at the germs. In trying to produce a purer form of penicillin, drug companies had inadvertently made a product with high K content. (Commercial penicillin...
...editorial in the Oak Leaf, the school paper, explained what they were up to: "We do not want to die a useless death. We cannot be indifferent. We are alarmed that this terrible menace has not been generally recognized. . . . Our fathers [mostly scientists or workers in the A-bomb development] have told us that the atom bomb can wreck the world, and we believe them...
...behind Arab Syria and Lebanon in their dispute with France and Great Britain. Now Russia was reminding the Arab world that she did not support Zionism, in fact already had a substitute Zion. In Palestine, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization, stated unequivocally: "It is perfectly useless to offer the Jews a substitute for Palestine...
...German prisoners and draftees have the inadequacies of all slave labor. Said one disgruntled Soviet factory director: "When we brought a German who said he was a diesel specialist to a diesel engine that needed repair, he would then say he was a marine diesel specialist. . . . Phooey, they are useless...