Word: useless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...army that gobbles up 50% of the budget. Commerce had slowed to a near standstill; in central Java only 50 sugar mills were operating (v. 120 prewar), and some 200,000 mill workers were unemployed. Everywhere, there was graft, red tape and spectacular inefficiency. Shiny new Czech tractors proved useless in the flooded rice fields; some 30% of a 100,000-ton Swedish shipment of cement had turned to rock because no one thought to bring it in out of the rain...
...roadside signs are apt to be costly and useless. Many Africans have found that they make good roofing material...
...spite of what American officials say," jeered Nikita Khrushchev in one of his rocket-brandishing outbursts, "bombers are useless. Bombers are obsolete...
This time the Opposition hungrily decided that the Pentagon had pulled the rug from under Diefenbaker for good. Socialist Leader Hazen Argue, who argues that Canada should spend its defense money on international good works, angrily shouted that Canadian defenses were "useless and due for a complete overhaul." For the Liberals, Lester ("Mike") Pearson charged that "every dollar being spent on Bomarc is in great danger of being wasted...
...surprising. A school in name only, Temple Collegiate (70 students) taught Marylie such weird humbug as 1) meals must never be served on blue plates because the color affects the food, 2) teachers wear beards as antennas to receive the vibrations of the universe, 3) it is useless to learn anything from books because "you can always look it up," 4) two and two make four-plus (plus being "the experience the numbers go through...