Word: useless
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...found a fly in his refreshment. He berated his poor stonefaced wife about it and then began slapping her. Worse and worse yet. Tulsa scenes. Merilee had to turn away. Alfred, pecker stiff but useless, had climbed onto the hood of the TR. From there he launched off onto poor Girl's head...
...springs and saline creeks. Even now these tiny (2½-in-long) evolutionary freaks can tolerate water six times more salty than the ocean's. They frolic in water with temperatures up to 112°; in freezing water they simply hibernate. According to Cry California magazine, the economically useless pupfish will soon test man's reverence for life. Spring Meadows Inc., a Nevada farming company, plans to start pumping ground water to irrigate its Death Valley lands for agriculture. As a result, the springs and creeks will dry up-and even pup fish cannot survive aridity...
...bombing tactic of the "Revolutionary Force 9" must be rejected as useless and counterproductive. It violates all principles of mass understanding and democratic participation. It will do nothing to win social change...
...sure, bare-kneed bagpipers would be useless skirling through the booby-trapped jungles of Viet Nam. They would be hopelessly muffled by the thunder of an 1CBM. Yet the strident music that has emboldened soldiers for centuries has powerful defenders. A number of influential Congressmen, including House Armed Services Committee Chairman L. Mendel Rivers, whose mother was of the fabled piper family of McCay, and Minnesota Republican Clark MacGregor, remember their Scottish blood and are making Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's life miserable with their protests. His aides concede that the dispute is becoming one of the most nettlesome...
THEORETICAL syntheses are fine in themselves-we need a lot more synthesis, and a lot less reduction-but if they have no relation to real situations, they can be worse than useless. Jones himself complains of the disparity between the training and experience of the teacher and that of the psychologist: "As things stand, psychologists will continue to work in the hothouse of experimental education while teachers work the vineyards." Hothouse and vineyards-most teachers who will read and try to apply Jones are not Educational Development Center teachers, most children are not "Newton children," most classes are not observed...