Word: useless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Berlin buildup-the 49th Armored of Texas and the 32nd Infantry of Wisconsin-McNamara was shocked to find that these supposedly crack units needed nearly five months to reach combat status. He discovered that the Guard had 95 antiaircraft companies armed with old-line 90-mm. guns that were useless against supersonic jet aircraft. And he found that the Guard was loaded down with such excess baggage as laundry companies, bath units, public relations men and special service companies to entertain the troops...
...chambers of the lung (alveoli). The walls of the alveoli thicken, lose their elasticity and much of their ability to do their vital job of exchanging carbon dioxide for oxygen. Subjected to sudden stress-such as a cough or sneeze-the alveolar walls rupture; part of the lung becomes useless...
...soon as Rusk arrived in Paris, his hosts made clear that they were angered by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's recent Michigan speech in which he denounced new, small national H-bomb projects as risky and useless. McNamara had said that "limited nuclear capabilities, operating independently, are dangerous, expensive, prone to obsolescence, and lacking in credibility as a deterrent." Asked Charles de Gaulle of Rusk: "How am I going to explain this to the French people...
...complexity-and the startling beauty-of his writings derive from the fact that Borges rates poetical insight a good deal higher than analytical thought. "To think is to forget differences, generalize, make abstractions," he writes. "There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless." Seeing Sharply. Borges' stories take place in a world that is half commonplace, half fantastic. Dreams occur within dreams; time loses its significance. What counts is momentary impulse and observation. A story mysteriously titled Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius concerns a mythical planet where people have no conception...
...three years of architectural and clerical bickering. The Coventry city council refused a building permit, arguing that the city had first to catch up in schools, homes and clinics. Minister of Works Sir David Eccles wrote the Lord Mayor: "Can we be sure that a cathedral would be so useless? We have never had a greater need for an act of faith." He overruled the council. A competition for design drew more than 600 requests for specifications and 219 final plans. The winner was bearded, eloquent Basil Spence, who fainted at the new?s of his victory...