Word: meaningless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chester, N.Y. held up 15 following trains, packed with 3,000 commuters, for as much as eight hours. No sooner was that mess cleared up than two more derailments on successive days snarled the New Haven all over again. In jampacked stations along the coast, schedules and timetables became meaningless. Only a few trains held to the luxury of dining cars-and these soon ran out of everything, including water...
...Kuomintang Party's tight control of government affairs. Last week, as Yui's Cabinet approved the draft of the defense that he must submit to the Judicial Yuan for a ruling in the case, the Kuomintang's Central Daily News loftily pronounced the impeachment "meaningless and without value...
...difficulty of pleasing everybody, to be popular. Beyond that, he is disturbed by the personal criticism and by the fact that some of his decisions have turned out worse than others, but he is not disturbed by the central attack against his evaluation of Communism. He is convinced that meaningless summit parleys tend to produce a letdown in the free world's sense of urgency. He is convinced that his policy toward the Kremlin, far from being "rigid" and "negative," is actually "flexible" and "positive," because it is based on the human aspirations and human drives...
...approved the basing of U.S. bombers in the United Kingdom for mutual defense. As to the new plan to install thermonuclear missiles in Britain-"If bases for nuclear rockets are the up-to-date equivalent for bomb-carrying planes, then our whole defense policy, our whole strategy, becomes meaningless unless we have these bases." Said Macmillan: "We have at least gained this-that we have such an even balance of power as makes war almost impossible. Do not let us lose this advantage. Therefore, in the plans proposed...we must see that this balance is preserved...
Bender claimed that prohibiting the use of photographs is meaningless, since all applicants are interviewed. He added that "the issue is whether the State is going to infringe upon the proper freedom of institutions to manage their own affairs within...