Word: needlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Needless to say, sabotage is a threat. Should construction work fall into the hands of a foreign power, havoc could be wrought behind the fences. By an ingenious system of tunnels, Widener could be drained of every learned periodical this side of the Reading Room. Then, too, the workers in charge might run berserk in their lonely isolation behind the fences and, from force of habit, rear another Weld or Matthews...
Next day the British Foreign Office went to great pains to explain that the whole Ribbentrop speech and White Paper were a tapestry of lies and forgeries. As far as disinterested observers were concerned, this was needless effort. The tardiness with which British forces had reached Norway, and the lack of organization shown in their first attacks, were eloquent evidence that Britain had been ready for no such campaign...
...Listen," replied Dr. Goebbels, "if I wanted to get the German people emotionally steamed up, I could do it in 24 hours. But they don't need it-they don't want it. ... We Germans do not like this war. We think it is needless and silly. The average German feels like a man with a chronic toothache-the sooner it is out, the better. And he does not need brass bands and flowers to get it over with...