Word: senselessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard to decide whether "That's A-Plenty" is better than "Ugly Child" or senseless since both rank way up near the top. Brunis plays that trombone through chorus after chorus of the fastest New Orleans march tempo imaginable without a noticeable flaw. Wettling furnishes some especially tasteful background drumming on the wood blocks, and Davison is again at his peak...
Have no truck with the senseless thing...
Last week, after the Axis had collapsed in Tunisia, Franco declared that the war had deadlocked. Said he: "Those of us who watch the struggle serenely consider it senseless to delay the peace." Four months ago, Francisco Franco was predicting victory for the Axis...
...Maine shippers were short of refrigerator cars; 4) OPA's ceilings, as usual, did not apply to growers. And many growers held out for prices too high to give wholesalers any margin at all. As a result of these factors, the public took to sporadic-and senseless-hoarding...
...witnessing an extraordinary spectacle-that of the richest nation in the world facing a catastrophic food shortage. . . . This senseless calamity, with all its grave repercussions upon the war effort and the future of the world, is happening in a country which is not only agriculturally one of the richest areas on the earth's surface, but normally one of the best equipped with modern machinery. . . . Very nearly every possible handicap has been placed on the production of more food and even of maintaining the normal supply...