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Word: useless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last confused, useless fighting in Europe was along the eastern front, where some panicky fanatics fired wildly at the dreaded Russians, and in Czechoslovakia, where patriots had risen to battle German troops for the capital city of Prague. There, a day after the overall surrender, a few last-ditch Nazis were still shooting, burning and looting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How It Ended | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

...feelers put out by Heinrich Himmler, despite the death throes of Berlin, despite revolution in Munich, cradle city of Naziism, despite the U.S.-Russian linkup, which cut the mortally wounded monster in two, some thousands of German fanatics stared blindly ahead and still had the will to fire another useless shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE WAR: Next! | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

...Useless Controversy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 30, 1945 | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

...little group, captors and captives, towered the marble-and-gold podium, where at Nazi festivals Hitler had once screeched and barked. "Alles Kaputt!" The young Storm Trooper sobbed over & over again. "Alles Kaputt! It's all over. All we have been taught all our lives will be useless now. Alles Kaputt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Perverted | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

...radio mine against which ordinary defense measures, such as flails, are useless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gadget War | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

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