Word: senseless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Dr. Hacha was seriously ill and was not expected to leave his bed for a long time. A few hours later President Hacha, seemingly in good health, appeared at Castle Lana and gloomily broadcast: "Any further sacrifice for the Czech Nation serves no purpose. . . . Face the cold realities. . . . Senseless opposition to armed might . . . can't win, but on the contrary can lose much. . . . The Czech people have been spared the horrors of war, such as defeated Poland, and our sons have not been led into battle, as in the case of Austria. You are able, almost...
...angry when he said that if Poland remained undefended every country in Europe would fall by the Nazis' "sickening technique." There was a roar from the House when he pounded the table and cried: "The German Chancellor has not hesitated to plunge the world into misery to serve his senseless ambitions." There was a louder roar when he said, "We have no quarrel with the German people except that they allowed themselves to be ruled by a Nazi Government" (see "White Papers" p. 38). But Prime Minister Chamberlain did not say what the House had nerved itself to hear, that...
...honorable and equitable settlement. . . . We shall stand at the bar of history knowing that the responsibility for this terrible catastrophe lies on the shoulders of one man. The German Chancellor has not hesitated to plunge the world into misery in order to serve his own senseless ambitions...
Fashion, always a "silly and senseless dame," said Boston's 79-year-old William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, is "even more silly and more senseless than ever. . . . With our Blessed Lady, Mary, the Mother of Christ, ever before their eyes as the model of Christian womanhood, how is it . . . that [Catholic women] venture to enter even the portals of the temple of God clothed in the silliest raiment of those who are dedicated to the temple of shame...
This is to say that I for one am in sympathy with the protests against the senseless cruelty to horses in the picture Jesse James [TIME...