Word: needless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Merola, a four-term Democrat. Donovan claimed that the jury was doing nothing more than "a rehash" of "the baseless allegations" that Silverman had investigated. It was all "a witch hunt," he said. The Labor Secretary said he had hired independent experts to give him lie-detector tests, and "needless to say, I passed with flying colors." Declared Donovan: "I will not be indicted...
...communicate so loudly or intrusively as to invade another's privacy without justification. No one is free to speak in such a way as to create a "clear and present danger" of inflicting immediate harm on others, a principle illustrated by Justice Holmes's famous example of causing needless panic by falsely shouting "fire" in a crowded theater. In rare situations where choices must be made among competing applicants--as when two groups seek to use the same forum at the same time--officials must choose between them on some reasonable basis even though the effect may be to favor...
...plans and figure out another way to get through central Europe. Every bridge and railway track and alpine tunnel is mined and ready to blow up whenever needed. The army is scheduled to go into full mobilization in 48 hours. In practice, it rarely taker half that long. And, needless to add, the Swiss have prepared for nuclear attack with the most complete array of shelters and civil defense plans in the world...
...Widener is Harvard's distinction and pride," says Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara V. Tuchman '33. "Yet, a library can be no better than its program of collecting, which must be alert, uninterrupted, and unfailing, and--needless--to say--reliably funded."Oscar Handlin...
Rowlands' Sarah does. She is a woman of excess, whose efforts to rid herself of that quality are, needless to say, marred by excessiveness. She loves her husband and daughter to pieces, and when we meet her at a divorce hearing she is sweetly, distractedly explaining that she cannot be too precise about times and dates when her mate can visit their child; they have this busy schedule flying about the country, visiting sick and dying relatives. Later, trying to forget her troubles by touring Europe, she is undone by excess baggage...