Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...family. Dingaan's brother and predecessor, the frightful Chief Tchaka, slaughtered an estimated 1,000,000 fellow blacks in genocidal wars. He liquidated women as useless, mourned his mother's death by killing 7,000 followers, was himself murdered by Dingaan...
...expected to be guests for the Yuletide entertainment, which will feature the inevitable Santa Claus and magician, plus a two or three piece band. Refreshments will be served, and, when it comes to present giving, the committee will follow the PBH standard of giving one practical gift and one useless toy to each guest...
...House splurge, Christmas means presents, and the committee has a distinctive manner of handling this, too. Every guest will head homeward after the party with not, one, but two gifts from Santa Claus '49--one a badly needed article of clothing, specified by the parents, and the other a useless toy, which the child is expected, if he runs true to form, to value much more highly...
Speaking as a soldier, Montgomery warned: "To promise to rescue the West in due course after a successful invasion from the East is quite useless. If the West is overrun again, that is ... the end of Western civilization . . . Do not let us fail to do the right things...
This is not as it should be. Men in this position should be permitted to sidestep the useless rote processes of memorization now needed to pass the minimum language requirement. Elementary language is a field where the philosophy of general education simply does not apply. The forgettability factor is too great and a smattering of grammar and vocabulary becomes almost completely worthless in a year or two, if it is not followed up with more advanced courses where it can be applied...