Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drawing in some of the surrounding water. The starfish, in the meantime, has been secreting an acid digestive juice in large quantities from great glands which fill all of its five arms. This fluid acts as an "anesthetic" on the muscles of the oyster, rendering them flabby and useless, after which it becomes an easy matter for the starfish to devour its prey...
...Senate's juiciest jobs. It is the Sergeant at Arms's duty, besides hunting up quorums, to police the upper chamber, arrange ceremonies, escort Presidents to inaugurations, buy tombstones for Senators buried in the Congressional Cemetery, sell the Senate's waste paper and useless documents and turn the proceeds over to the Treasury. The job is the topmost pinnacle in the eyes of Capitol clerks, pages, policemen and other attaches. Their excitement over Jurney's possible end buzzed all week through cloakroom and corridor...
Curiously, breakage is no drawback: the quick-fingered people who get to be inspectors seldom drop things. In the rare accidents that befall even the quickest-fingered, a dropped steel gauge is useless until recalibrated; a glass gauge either breaks or is as good...
Sirs: Too bad Dali's book comes out at a time when we are sick of waste, useless living, and grovelers for notoriety...
...chewed aspirin to kill the pain of his broken ribs. The drinking water had salt in it. Food supplies ran short. Cigarets were soaked, so the crew smoked dried tea leaves and fresh coffee rolled in pages torn from the Bluejacket's Manual. The auxiliary engine was useless. It was impossible to sail her. Day after day, a chip in a maelstrom, the 3070 tossed on the heaving Atlantic, battered by soft. waves, driven by the whims of one storm after another...