Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apparently successful treatment for infantile paralysis-reversing all accepted methods of treating the disease at its outset-was last week described to U.S. doctors. Instead of immobilizing paralyzed limbs by strapping them to splints, the new treatment calls for patiently flexing a victim's useless limbs while he is still sick in bed. No doctor invented this method, but a nurse in the Australian bush named Sister Elizabeth Kenny...
...know why, with seven months in which to do it, the Cretan airdromes had not been either fortified or dynamited against Nazi landings. They wanted to know why Nazi planes had been able to soar against Crete in hordes from Greek airdromes which British officials had called practically useless...
...commotion in the doorway has sounded his triumphant arrival and Nock shuffles up the aisle, tipping his cocked hat to admirers and gayly swinging a useless cane. As he hustles to the platform he appears flustered about the coming performance. He dumps out a stack or books and papers on the table and more or less tears of his monotonous black cloaking, revealing another layer of rumpled blackness. The first communication to the audience may be anything from a grin to an inimitable gargle -- one of those special Nock guttural noises denoting pause and hesitancy. Then a stream of words...
...world and its press were scarcely to be blamed for turning the most startling change of residence in history into an international guessing game. The British Government, which had been handed a magnificent trump card, had by confused handling of the affair, practically exchanged its trump for a useless joker...
...breakthrough into a small sac. The difference between the futile Italian and the furious British defense of Tobruch was not just a matter of command of the sea. The Italians used fixed artillery, which could fire outwards only, so that after a breakthrough the whole ring of emplacements was useless; the British, with movable guns, stayed at their posts after the breakthrough and trained cross fire inwards on the attackers...