Word: useless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cities, thus have "only superficial knowledge of quickly flowing and changing reality." In their "impossibly narrow trousers and absurdly broad-shouldered jackets," he scoffed, they are interested only in showing off to "the hysterical squeals of beatnik chicks."† He added that such poets would, in any case, be useless on the farm since they would soon be "nostalgic for warm toilets and the other city blessings...
...Driving a Lotus, its brakes virtually useless for the last 15 laps, Britain's Stirling Moss averaged 91.3 m.p.h., fast enough to win the 203-mile Pacific Grand Prix at Monterey, Calif...
...Israel must work as partners, not as older and younger brothers, and the state must be the product of the people as a whole. This concept transcends the idea of a political state, and since it has not yet been realized Zionism was not made useless in 1948, he said...
...where shelters can save lives, the University must act; and outside of cities, shelters are a realistic response to the very threat of nuclear war. Refusal to build is a callous gamble with life, an ill-considered unilateral step toward making America's nuclear deterrent useless...
...speech sponsored by the Boston committee for Disarmament and Peace, Arnoni called "a dead enemy a useless army." Every war is waged for a purpose, he declared, and the United States would seek to once again "open the doors of China, Russia, and eastern purpose" for economic "exploitation." A nation of corpses will not provide customs...