Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was emotion, too, but of a different sort, in the hearts of the 11th Airborne Division as they dropped down on Atsugi, of the 4th Marines as they plunged ashore at Yokosuka, heavily laden with battle gear that was to be useless. This was the last beachhead, and they hit it standing up. There was no fight left in the enemy...
...that we should have suppressed our discovery of how to harness atomic energy. Other nations would have discovered it within a very short time. Indeed, it is to the good of the whole world that we, a normally peace-loving nation, did discover it first. But it is equally useless to say that because we are a peace-loving nation and possess the secret, the future peace of the world is assured. What nation, knowing that with atomic power we could utterly destroy it without warning and without harm to ourselves, would trust even the U.S. ? No. The only answer...
...York Times pointed out that to outlaw atomic energy as a weapon was useless without considering "the rest of war's horrible paraphernalia. In a word, the trail must be blazed for disarmament and peace...
...problems of U.S. democracy. In the most complex technical-industrial society of all time, American learning has spread out to encompass everything from electronics to eel husbandry-and the common body of tradition and culture that once bound men together is by & large getting a cursory dismissal as "useless" and "impractical...
Ships are struck-the Nevada, the Bunker Hill-and you see the massive helplessness of power and number before one midge to whom life has ceased to have meaning. A midge dives and misses, by a matter of yards, of feet, and sprouts its fierce little explosion of utterly useless death. In his last seconds of life what must be in the mind of the Kamikaze flyer who succeeds or of the flyer who fails? Flak, a great storm of it, for what seems like minutes in a continuous shot, searches after a retreating plane, and at last connects...