Word: useless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Army lieutenant colonel who had spent five months training for the assault, marched down to a beach on the Farallons, smeared himself with great gobs of a "secret" cold-protective grease and stroked off-straight into a school of jellyfish. For two hours, his left arm was nearly useless with excruciating pain, but he somehow kept going until the pain subsided, after a total...
...Stokely Carmichael." Intellectuals should be properly informed before they take a stand. "The idea that a strong human intelligence can be brought to bear on any subject under the sun may date from the Renaissance, but there were then fewer subjects under the sun." Abstract pronouncements are useless in deciding between the "respective rectitude of Biafra and the Nigerian Federal government. It is only surprising that intellectuals still back countries or factions in countries as others back football teams or horses...
Davis said that he enjoyed the Patriots practice more than college football, but that he would now call it quits for good. "I see that injuries have made it useless for me to complete," he remarked. He will attend the Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy at M.I.T. in the fall...
...Write what you will about the hippies. They are a repugnant, repulsive, nauseating, filthy, immoral, and utterly useless glob of humanity serving absolutely no purpose...
...will be the several years worth of careful court litigation required so far to arrive at just procedures for the treatment of conscientious objectors. The House bill demands a return to the old requirement of objection solely on grounds of "religious training and belief." This provision is, fortunately, legally useless. As Rep. Donald Edwards (D.-Calif.) pointed out in the House debate over the bill, the wording would allow the courts to continue to interpret "religious belief" broadly...