Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Advertiser's extraordinary editorial also advocated a radical change of Japanese conduct in China: "The maintenance of peace by armed garrisons would always involve considerable expense. Chinese cooperation, on the other hand, will not be forthcoming unless there is good reason for it. Coercion would be useless...
...life; 2) abstention from annoying foods; 3) aspirin tablets, benzedrine, black coffee or ducking in cold water for mild cases. If a patient can scent it in advance, a dose of the drug gynergen will nip a migraine headache in the bud; once the throbbing begins, this medicine is useless. Gynergen often produces jitters, vomiting, circulatory disturbances in the fingers and toes. Oxygen inhalations "often work miraculously" but must be taken in a doctor's office or hospital for an hour...
...means "one who has the power over horses," for being the first "horse doctor" to realize the basic facts about the human organism, but the doctor of ancient Greece took a rapping for being too idealistic "in striving for the preservation of human life no matter how miserable and useless...
That the bridges over the Meuse were left standing was denied by Army men, They claimed instead that German columns had found some shallow fords in the river, had driven scores of obsolete tanks, useless for combat, into the water, and sent their big 30-ton monsters crunching over these improvised bridges. But in the magnitude of France's fall their words went unheeded...
...severe setbacks, and has already cost him one. A tiny nation, Yugoslavia, had dared to defy him, with the result that the plans for his spring campaign in the Balkans had to be completely revised. Now his armies are committed to crush Yugoslavia, from Hitler's standpoint a useless and costly campaign-costly at any rate in time...