Word: senselessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like leader, a band of hippies, clad in black, allegedly broke into a secluded Los Angeles home last August. In the orgy of hacking, stabbing and shooting that followed, Starlet Sharon Tate, 26, and four other people were killed. It was one of the grisliest, bloodiest, and apparently most senseless crimes of the century...
...remaking the vocal line, a technique he borrowed from soul music and worked to perfection in masterpieces like "Goin' Home." Jagger wasn't having any of it, for two possible reasons: one, that the audience was already completely zonked on their own Stones' trip and it would have been senseless for him to waste the energy on something they wouldn't notice anyway; two, once that trick was on the table he'd have nothing more to show...
...that no other atrocity of comparable scope has taken place in Viet Nam. But inevitably, the My Lai revelation has started a flood of other horror stories. Dozens of journalists, soldiers and visitors to Viet Nam have begun to recall other incidents of U.S. brutality. Individual acts of senseless ?sometimes gleeful?killing of civilians by U.S. troops apparently happened often enough to be deeply disturbing...
...much of the world knows by now, a 20-year-old U.S. Marine lance corporal four weeks ago commandeered at gunpoint a TWA plane that had taken off from Los Angeles International Airport and skyjacked it to Rome, where he was captured and jailed (TIME, Nov. 7). Behind that senseless and dramatic odyssey lay another one that helps to explain Raffaele Minichiello's bizarre action. Raff, as his family calls him, retraced that first, formative journey for U.S. Lawyer Marvin Mitchelson, who flew to Rome to organize Minichiello's defense. As the young Marine talked in his cell...
...they had stepped in to prevent the militants from turning the demonstration the Mobe had so carefully organized into a scene of senseless, polarizing violence. A young Mobe marshal moved down the sidewalk pleading with the crowd through his megaphone, "This is not an official Mobe demonstration. Will all those not connected with this demonstration please leave this area...