Word: useless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constitute an indigent class," says Cal's Bernardo. "We live below the labor department's poverty line." Thus there are duds as well as diamonds among TAs. One Harvard fellow candidly rates 20% of the TAs in his department as "obtuse and useless pedants." And undergraduate uneasiness about being distant from top-brass teachers is widespread throughout the best U.S. universities...
...feels severe pain and suspects he is having a heart attack, Wolf concluded, he may panic, thus causing a reflex so marked that his heart will quit. Or chemical changes caused by the too-strong reflex action may throw the heart into equally fatal fibrillation (a useless twitching...
...Braves are weaker in one respect, with Hank Aaron recuperating from a shoulder operation and potentially useless for at least part of the season...
...characterized by 1) more or less secure Western ascendancy over the Assembly and 2) the forceful personality of Dag Hammarskjöld, who took initiatives that few of the U.N.'s founders had visualized as part of the office of Secretary-General. His U.N., of course, was useless if the vital interests of a major power were at stake: when Russia brutally suppressed the Hungarian uprising, the Assembly could only pass resolutions of censure. But the Hammarskjold decade saw two operations in which the U.N., for better or for worse, did act, and set remarkable precedents for international cooperation...
...Seminars Useless...