Word: useless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Personally, I believe that the fervor of the pro-life movement will eventually burn out; at the same time. I also believe that our society will evolve to such a point that the concern for human life will make abortion a socially and morally objectionable practice, as well as useless. In the meantime, responsible debate on the issue of abortion should continue; articles like Ms. Idelson's, however, only serve to mislead and confuse, instead of instruct and enlighten. Michael T. Matthews...
Aquino made it clear that he intended to return in the near future to his homeland. Although he said "Harvard is like a second home to me." Aquino stated several times that he felt both restless and a little useless because he was so far away from the center of his concerns. "My place is in the Philippines that is where I belong," he said, adding that "while my stay here has been invaluable for the time it has given me to think and talk with others. This is not the place I can do the most good...
...leaky valve in the shuttle's million-dollar space toilet, a source of trouble on four previous flights. In addition, solar panels on India's Insat-1B, a $45 million communications satellite released by Challenger, failed to open all the way, threatening to render the satellite as useless as Insat-1A, launched last year, which also developed panel problems. Still, said Mission Evaluation Manager Joseph E. Mechelay, "none of these things should affect STS-9." That flight is scheduled...
...most of his 40 years, John, a Los Angeles machinist, has thought of himself as "a no-good, useless bastard." That is what his father, who beat him with sticks and belts until he was 13, continually called him. And that, for a time, is what John became. He left home after high school, joined the Navy, but failed to mature. "I couldn't deal with adults. I was a loner and avoided people unless I was picking fights with them." He drank too much, married a divorced woman with a three-year-old daughter, and discovered that "emotionally...
...Gram told it was that all I she had ever had in life was kids and work and useless men and what she wanted, and had earned besides, was to be left alone." Time sweeps everything along in its great, slow spiral: Gram's farm, Uncle Dan's butcher shop, Celia's beauty. People and houses move for a while with the current, then drop away to be replaced by hazy afterimages-family gossip, family myth. This musing, brooding, backward-looking novel, the author's first, summons up scenes of middle-aged women huddling over coffee...