Word: useless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...semi-automatic carbine shot out of his hands. "The 17 of us left [a canyon] under a waning moon, the march was very tiresome and we left many traces in the canyon where we were," he wrote. "At two we stopped to rest, since it was useless to continue advancing." The sad crusade was near...
Dismissing NATO as "a completely useless affair," Zhukov admitted sportingly that the same might be said of the Warsaw Pact. "We must dissolve the two blocs and organize a system of European cooperation, economically, scientifically, culturally and even politically." For a start, Zhukov backs a Belgian project calling for a "Pan-European orientation conference," at which parliamentarians from all European countries would voice their plans for collaboration...
...will live through it." Students worldwide, he said, "have been at the very heart of the greatest and most promising revolution in human history. And when revolutions come, they inevitably tear into the valuable, the precious and the sanctified as well as into the obsolete and the useless." He told students to "get off the mourner's bench; you must not cloak yourself in the mantle of a wailing Cassandra. The great revolution represents birth pangs and not death throes, the life force and not the death wish...
...Joint Center is not going to be the catalyst between the university and the ghetto, that does not render the Center useless. Ghetto problems are by far the most urgent concern of urbanists, but obviously not the only ones. The urgency of ghetto problems tends to suggest to people an "obvious" institutional role for the urbanstudies Center in the ghetto--but as the Joint Center stands now, it is singularly and paradoxically unsuited to assisting the community it studies
...soon noticed that there was some white, crystal-like powder on the face of a moth that was ready to emerge from its cocoon. Most of the enzyme crystals were on two cone-shaped structures on the face, called maxillae, which scientists had hither-to believed useless to the silk moth. Kafatos also found concentrated enzyme solution in the maxillae's cells, which squeeze the solution out through fine tubes leading to the surface of the maxillae. The enzyme, mixed with the liquid of the old silk tubes, gets painted over the cocoon's tip, thus dissolving the cocoon...