Word: mindless
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...looping involves more than mindless drudgery, although the nickname "mule train" persists in many caddy yards. During the U.S. Women's Open Bartlett paced off exact yardages before each round and rose every morning to watch P.J. Boatwright, the venerable executive director of the USGA, attend to pin placements. "Every time he found the right place his face would light up with a sadistic smile," Bartlett remembers...
...backward and xenophobic regimes in the world. Cambodians themselves refer to the Khmer Rouge simply as "the Organization." Refugees who have managed to flee to Thailand -often after days and weeks of walking through thick forests and jungles along the border-describe the revolution as a chilling form of mindless terror. In sharp contrast to Laos and Viet Nam, where party cadres have subtly tried to win popular support for social change, there are no revolutionary songs, slogans, poetry, party newspapers or "reeducation" centers to explain the purpose and ideology of the revolution. Instead, refugees told TIME Correspondents William McWhirter...
...sort of belt which wraps around his genitalia. It is electronically attuned to his body smell. When he begins to lose, and starts secreting the smell of fear, the electronic "pod," situated in his testicles, is activated. The shock drives him into a state of mindless frenzy in which he has been known to bite off his opponents entire cheeks. Von Erich has lost very, very few matches...
...vast battalions of female overachievers." When her prim devotion to the rationalism of Descartes collapses under the onslaught of Nietzsche, she drops out of school and into a lesbian affair with a leathery radical. A communal farm in Vermont claims Ginny next, and ultimately she sinks into a mindless marriage with the local snowmobile salesman. "The incidents in her life to date," Ginny fatuously decides, "resembled the Stations of the Cross more than anything else. If this was adulthood, the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that now she could eat dessert with out eating her vegetables...
Split second decisions are the name of the game and mindless impartiality is an ironclad rule. Mendy Rudolph, the former chief of NBA officials turned television commentator, says "Blow with reckless abandon and let the chips fall where they...