Word: useless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being. On the other hand, even those who are temporarily in the majority cannot avoid their own ultimate bankruptcy. They may . . . bluster noisily, but their majority is only a fictitious, superficial phenomenon. We will never submit to the dictates of any anti-Marxist-Leninist bludgeon. Unreasonable abuse is entirely useless; curses have not done us the least harm...
...called independent European deterrent could hardly increase the alliance's total strength, and would make NATO relatively useless against Russia. The nuclear capability of Great Britain is at present two per cent of that of the U.S., and de Gaulle's "force de frappe" will amount to only another two per cent when completed. Germany might add an additional two per cent...
Kennedy urged the Cubans to "submerge those differences which now may disturb you, to the united end that Cuba is free," and commended to them the advice of Jose Marti, the hero of Cuban independence, who in 1895 urged his fellow exiles to display "not the useless clamor of fear's vengeance but the honest weariness of an oppressed people...
...51st of Florida and South Carolina. Those outfits (authorized division strength: 13,500) would be regrouped into 3,300-man brigades. Further, 1,800 smaller Guard and reserve units would be disbanded because they are dead weight-among them, crews of vintage 90-mm. antiaircraft guns, now useless against jets. But 1,000 new units would be created, such as guerrilla-warfare squads. The end result, McNamara hopes, will be a lean, modernized reserve capable of taking up front-line positions in as little as four weeks...
...first of January), but at least no one need ever receive another piece of junk mail. Nemesis in this instance is a curious little figure named Mr.Zip. Mr.Zip is five little numbers that secretaries of giant from firms are supposed to be able to put on hundreds of useless envelopes to speed them on their senseless...