Word: senselessness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...next diversion came when two forwards leaped into the air to head the ball, headed each other instead, and fell senseless to the ground. This produced the greatest enthusiasm of the day among the crowd, who rose cheering clapping and laughing. It was the signal for the lady next to me to produce a large bottle of Chianti and pass it around to her neighbors...
...murder of Robert Doyle, which the Indonesian government called "sad and senseless," brought mournful tributes from those who had known and valued...
...injecting 40 cc of air into the veins of his cancer-ridden patient, Mrs. Abbie Borroto, Dr. Sander had committed a "morally reprehensible action," and had violated his obligations to his patient and his profession,.said the board. The injection, Sander had testified, was "a senseless act" and not a mercy killing. But no physician, said the board, "can be allowed to perform a senseless act." Two New Hampshire hospitals promptly dropped Dr. Sander from their staffs (two Roman Catholic hospitals had already barred him for life), and the American Academy of General Practice announced he would be suspended from...
Three years ago, modern major-league baseball ended a senseless tradition when Jackie Robinson crossed its color line. Long before that, other Negroes had fought their way to the top in the prize ring and football and run off with track & field laurels. The one big competitive field still closed to them in sport is bowling, ruled by the autocratic American Bowling Congress, whose membership (estimated at 1,500,000) is limited to "white males" only. Last week, Attorney General Nathaniel Goldstein of New York rolled one right down the middle against...