Word: needlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...counters with the new IBM 7090 and its sidekick RAMAC 305 to tally ballots "within thousandths of a second," will also use humans, with Walter Cronkite as anchor man. NBC boasts an RCA 501 and a similar 1,000-man task force, commanded by Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, needless...
What is so curious about this deliberate withholding and suppression of information in almost every area of governmental operation is that--until this election--it was needless. With mandates in '52 and '56 so powerful that the men in the Eisenhower government could have told hard, unpopular truths to the American people, they chose instead to play insecure and intimidated roles. Unreasonably afraid of the people's reaction to any sort of bad news at home or abroad, they preferred deception, suppression of facts, and silence, to running the small political risk of being unpopularly right too soon...
...Blue goal was the result of a needless hands violation by the Crimson. The free kick landed in a maze of Harvard and Pennsylvania players about 20 yards directly in front of the Crimson goal. Out of the melee came a shot by Norm Bierman fired past goalie Bob Forbush, who was caught on the wrong side of the cage...
...wife as well) their that he fatherthat he will recover. In the case of non-Christians, Pastor Brooks has no quarrel with his benevolent deceit: "There is no merit in trying to force a Christian death on non-Christian life . . . But why must such a death be turned into needless defeat in the case of the faithful? When a devout man demands to know the truth s othat he can face death victoriously, must we join his family in pretending this burning pain in his abdomen will disappear?For one thing, such a sufferer may feel cut off from...
...over-confident Crimson could do nothing right. The usually reliable right side of the line leaked considerably; safety men got in each others' way and dropped easy punts; routine tackles were missed; the team's quarterback was covered on every play; the players had a knack at producing wholly needless penalties at the wrong time; backs couldn't find holes, hit other backs, and had to push tardy blockers...