Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stubble. Some vehicles were parked for the evening with passengers and crew sleeping underneath for shelter against the wind. Others had broken down completely. They had been stripped bare of every useful article-tires, lamps, seats, even motors. Abandoned beside them lay cargoes of bombs and ammunition, shining and useless in the biting cold...
...variously reported to be guided by radio, by gyro compass, by fins, by spinning. But on one thing experts agreed: V-2 is a self-contained rocket, carrying its own oxygen and traveling at such speed (1,000 to 3,500 m.p.h.) that ordinary antiaircraft defenses are useless against...
...such a Britain," said B.I.S., "would be useless to the U.S., both commercially and militarily. If it had existed in 1940, the Germans would have overrun it as easily as they overran Denmark. . . . Thus the only way for Britain to be of value to the U.S. is for her to continue with her large population and her great, enterprising industrial economy. And the only way she can maintain these is for her to have immense export markets for her goods, services and investments, as well as the means of access to them-shipping and airlines...
...student of Russian history. Only result of the complaints: an embarrassed changing of the subject. Last week, Correspondent Kendrick, fed up with cabling home rehashes of the Moscow papers, suggested that he be recalled. The Inquirer's managing editor John J. Fitzpatrick agreed, cabled Al Kendrick: "Further stay useless. . . . Come home as soon as possible...
...face; 400 German soldiers and 30-odd U.S. captives followed them. Colonel Wilck asked for and received permission to address a Word of farewell to his men. Said he: "Dear German soldiers, I am speaking to you at a painful moment. ... I saw that further fighting was useless. ... At this time I have to remind you that you are still German soldiers. Please behave as such. I also wish you the best of health in your future travels and fast return to the Fatherland after hostilities have ended...