Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time, General Eisenhower broadcast an appeal to the German officer corps: "The end is merely a question of time. . . . We cannot expect the German officer to do anything . . . contrary to his honor or his country's interest. It is in Germany's interest to ... end . . . this useless bloodshed. The decision is up to the German officer...
...tunnel which is one of Berlin's 'safest' shelters. Thousands of people were packed together there. Then the first bombs came. The ground heaved, lights flickered. People scrambled about like frightened animals. . . . The lights in the tunnel went out. . . . Some pocket torches were lighted, but proved useless in the cloud of chalky dust that came welling through the tunnel. It penetrated eyes, mouth, nose and ears. People knelt on the railway tracks and prayed...
Canada took another step toward financial independence of the U.S. last week. Last summer she had purchased (for $76,800,000) all the U.S.built airfields on the staging routes to Europe and Asia. But there still remained in Canada vast amounts of U.S. property-movable and immovable, useful and useless. Now the two good neighbors agreed that...
...Only in the northeast they were fighting like catamounts, forcing some Sixth Army units to fierce local combat, which was incongruous with the overall pattern of planned withdrawal. There was evidence that the enemy, having been bested by Krueger in 16 operations, at last had realized that it was useless to fight an old soldier on his own terms...
...Army's toughest job is to give the man confidence, disabuse him of any notion that he is useless or unattractive. One of its most effective devices is demonstrations of skill by such famed crippled veterans as Charles Craig McGonegal (TIME, Feb. 14). When a crippled veteran is finally discharged from the Army, he has a life pension (e.g., $30 a month for a leg) and has usually begun to learn a trade. What General Kirk and his staff fear most is that oversolicitous or thoughtless civilians may undo their careful work...