Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eighth which had not moved north for the main attack (see col. 2) moved slowly forward, reducing the bulge. From the north, British armor cut down across the mouth of the Cap. slicing into the flank of the bulge. Cap Bon was just a place for a useless last stand...
...twelve years ago for the U.S. in the first Washington Merry-Go-Round. Canadians flinched and chortled at the brash impertinences and superficialities of The People's Mouths, also found many an acid tintype of their politicians. Many were aware that Cross memorized timetables and collected other useless information but few suspected the sharper side of his nature...
...Wellington about 1810: "If I attempt to answer the mass of futile correspondence that surrounds me, I should be debarred from all serious business of campaigning." Said a U.S. battalion commander in 1943: "We are actually swamped with typed and mimeographed literature. More than 90% of it is utterly useless." Says Colonel Gillette of a heavily burdened Air Force officer: "The command of which he was adjutant was scattered in three service commands. His headquarters received distribution direct from the Adjutant General's Office and from each of these three service command headquarters . . . each felt a duty to interpret...
...railroad president in the country would buy "Pioneer." For months it lay useless in the Chicago and Alton yards. Then, in the spring of 1865, on the day Abraham Lincoln's funeral train arrived in Chicago, George Pullman found his opportunity. Mrs. Lincoln was on that train and she wanted to go through to Springfield that night. George Pullman's offer of his car was accepted. Station platforms and bridge railings were ripped apart so that the broad-beamed monster could...
...given the chance I could do some things that would be of great benefit to the world"; "In walking I am very careful to step over sidewalk cracks"; "I am not afraid of picking up a disease or germs from door knobs"; "I certainly feel useless at times"; "I think Lincoln was greater than Washington";* "My table manners are not quite as good at home as when I am out in company...