Word: useless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Security has been so easy for the last generation. A peace marcher now working in Carter's White House says, "I hate to even talk about it. The old 1960s measuring rods are useless. Concerns are so different. I have no moral yardstick. We must consider what we can do that will work, that will prevent...
...pork barrel project, no matter how ill-conceived, is worth more than any whole species of creatures that share this planet with us. In the face of this blatantly self-interested drive by Congress, Carter has failed to stand by his early attempts to block the construction of useless projects, as he has failed to stand by the Endangered Species Act when it needed him most...
...went to Virginia Military Institute, became first captain, then a Rhodes scholar, fought with the Mobile Riverine Force of the 9th Infantry Division in Viet Nam, and as a major taught at West Point. He left the Army with feelings of sympathetic frustration over watching good men fight a useless war in the wrong way. He became president of Briarcliff College, wrote another novel (The Advent of Frederick Giles), and moved to Hampden-Sydney in 1977. His time is spent now with his students, and with Brahms, Carlyle, and a strong spirit still to be savored among those Virginia hills...