Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took four days for trucks to bring help over the narrow road which is Sondondo's only link to the world outside. Government agents took one look, decided that it was useless to try to recover the dead. Instead, they suggested that the Sondondinos leave their ancient home for a safer place. Scoffed one old survivor: "These men from the coast make me laugh. They talk as if this were our first ayapana. We have had them since God knows when...
...entering from high-schools where Greek is rarely offered and Latin is hardly an essential. Consequently, the English Department's Latin-Greek ruling is discouraging many prospective concentrators, who are turning to more up-to-date departments in the College simply to save a term or two of useless effort...
...evening, when Mao was 13, his father, in front of a group of guests, denounced him as lazy and useless. This meant a terrible loss of face for young Mao. He ran out of the house, his father in hot pursuit. Young Mao reached the edge of a pond and threatened to jump in if his father came any nearer. "Demands and counter-demands were presented for cessation of the civil war," Mao recalled. "My father insisted that I apologize and kowtow . . . I agreed to give a one-knee kowtow if he would promise not to beat me. Thus...
...Bright Side. In Salt Lake City, the editors of the state prison newspaper had a consoling word for their fellow convicts: "No one is entirely useless. Even the worst of us can serve as horrible examples...
...Humanities 1, said the book had some merit, especially in the chapters reviewing "The Iliad" and "The Epic of the Hebrews." The section about the Book of Job, however, he described as "purest rubbish." Richards decried the use of review books "since exam questions are designed to make them useless...