Word: useless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protect black property as well as white. Afro is justified too in its anger at whites, who abuse his memory with substanceless odes to his non-violent tactics. But for Afro to put its energies into developing a fighting spirit and charting the logistics of racial warfare would be useless...
...useless has it proved to be, trying to give Omar a black eye? He is an educated man of the world, somewhat like Quintus Horatius Flaccus, good company, urbane, witty, tolerant... If the noble vintage of his petry ever made adipsomaniac or his indulgent smile ever broke up a marriage, that news has yet to come in over the teletype...
...what mental health is. With each passing year we can see what a slippery concept mental health or the absence of stress is. Our concept of what it is to get along in our society is an ever changing process, and to conceive of it in any absolute sense useless at any time of life and especially during adolescence...
Complete defoliation could also cause laterization, the destructive process that occurs in some tropical soils when removal of vegetation exposes them to erosion and sunlight. In South America, lateritic soil has baked into rock-like hardness and become useless with in five years after it was cleared for farming. As yet, there is no evidence of laterizing of similar soils in Viet Nam after defoliation, probably because the ground cover is never completely destroyed and grass and weeds reappear...
...would be a standing shame if the bills were not passed, or, if they were so weakened so as to be totally useless...