Word: useless
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...philosopher not because he is explaining the policy of others but because the perspective of the diplomat and the philosopher are so widely different. As a private citizen and a public candidate, Stevenson time and again stressed the importance of cooperation with the Russians; repeatedly he declared useless a policy based on anti-Soviet attacks. Yet more than half of the U.N. speeches in this volume are little more than anti-Soviet propaganda. In these speeches, of course, Stevenson does not abandon his over-all philosophy. But in responding to an anti-imperialist circular, or commenting on the 100th Soviet...
...aboard Joe's 52-ft. yacht Marlin. Later old Joe, who rails at the handicaps of the partial paralysis and loss of speech he still suffers as a result of his stroke nearly two years ago, was off to Chicago. There he had a therapy treatment for his useless arm and leg at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and took a nostalgic tour of the Merchandise Mart, his favorite possession...
...Useless Pumping. In transposition, placement of the heart's outflow pipes is reversed. The aorta, the great artery designed to supply oxygenated blood to the entire body, arises from the right lower chamber (ventricle) of the heart instead of from the left. As a result, it carries used blood back into circulation. The pulmonary artery, designed to carry used blood to the lungs for oxygenation, arises from the left ventricle instead of from the right; as a result, oxygen-enriched blood is pumped uselessly back and forth between lungs and heart...
Many 'Cliffies received an unexpected two hours of extra sleep yesterday morning when an electrical blackout rendered their normally efficient alarm clocks useless...
...official ruled pass interference, however, and awarded Dartmouth the football on the Harvard one yard line. The Harvard line held three times, but with the aid of a personal foul penalty, Kelly finally drove the one-half yard into the end zone for the useless score. Tom Bllodeau broke up Kelly's pass for the6BILL HUMENUK And Receivers...