Word: mindless
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...political turmoil in El Salvador has claimed 8,400 lives so far this year; that is roughly one death for every square mile in the tiny Central American country. Last week four Americans became victims of the mindless, increasing violence. Alongside a twisting dirt road, 30 miles east of the capital of San Salvador, peasants found the bodies of three nuns and a Catholic lay worker who had been working with the poor in the countryside. The nuns were Dorothy Kazel, 40, of Cleveland, a member of the Ursuline Order, and two Maryknoll sisters from New York City, Ita Ford...
...afternoons they return for another two-to three-hour session. On an average day each swimmer does about 400 laps of a 25-yard pool in varying combinations of strokes and intervals, staring at the black line on the bottom of the pool in a sort of mindless trance. Could you do that...
...clear whether Democrats in the new Congress will lose their zeal for other issues once dear to their party or unite in a mindless out-party opposition to whatever the incoming Reagan Administration proposes. Either way they could contribute to the widespread reputation of a disorganized and interest-ridden Congress as being part of the nation's problems rather than as a body offering solutions...
...There's a love/hate relationship with MIT that affects most people, and often we just want to forget it," says Dave, who says he came to college "concerned about intellectual things," but now sees the value of "mindless activity." An unwritten rule forbids Brothers to discuss classes at the dining table and "it is definitely sacreligious to tool on a Friday afternoon or evening." Dave now dates "without worrying about whether she and I match up intellectually. I just don't seem to want to go to art museums or the symphony anymore when I go out." He adds...
...disadvantaged for whom it has traditionally spoken. Stirring memories of the New Deal and New Frontier glory days, he set off a 43-minute, dancing-in-the-aisles demonstration that far exceeded in noise and enthusiasm anything the Carterites could stage. It was a purely emotional, if not mindless phenomenon. To the assembled delegates, it made little difference that many of the big spending programs he advocated seemed more responsive to the problems of the '60s, or even the '30s, than of the '80s. On this one night he was their man, and they cheered his every word...