Word: senselessly
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...deadly, but no less ignored, is the war continuing for American draft resisters. While the dead are buried, while thousands of wounded suffer without real compensation, while POWs return home to offers of shiny Fords and baseball passes, those who saw the Vietnam disaster for the immoral exercise in senseless destruction it was, remain exiled. Hundreds of thousands of dead, wounded, and imprisoned people might today be living in freedom had the draft resisters been heeded in 1965. The perpetrators of so much suffering sit in Congress, in the Ford Foundation, in the World Bank, in the Pentagon...
...Senseless. Washington police and the FBI found no evidence that the assailants knew the identity of the victim, and they assumed it was a random robbery aimed at any affluent resident of the neighborhood. President Nixon called the shooting a "senseless thing" and praised Stennis as "the most indispensable" of all the Senators in helping achieve "the honorable peace" in Viet Nam. He said the weapon used apparently was a .22-cal. "Saturday night special," the kind of cheap handgun that the Senate last year voted to ban. (The bill died because the House did not agree.) Nixon said...
Most awkward for the old China hand are those situations which defy explanation, those statements that simply do not make sense. Tuchman encountered several. Officials denied facts of history, made senseless decisions, and gave seemingly absurd rationales. Tuchman mused, "One never knows...whether it is ignorance, or befuddled Marxist orthodoxy, or some kind of reverse oriental version of reality." She was standing at the edge of a yawning cultural...
...wound damaged a part of his brain that deciphered perceptions of the world and bound them into some kind of order. Like a broken mirror with some pieces missing and others jumbled, Zasetsky's shattered mind reflected the world as senseless fragments. He could not tell left from right; he could not be sure where his arms and legs were. He saw a pair of glasses as disparate lines and circles that could just as well have been a bicycle-if he could only think of the word...
...friend still journeys weekly to a veterans hospital for treatment, one of the hundreds of thousands of casualties in a bloody, senseless conflict that, after 12 years of direct American involvement, seems to be drawing to a close...