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Word: useless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
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Their entire life they wield the broom to muddle up useless things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sudden Enlightenment | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

...decades later, with a change in architectural belief. Obsessed with the idea that everything in G and S has to be funny, they have transformed a soprano showpiece into a mindless burlesque. Barbara Menaker, as Mabel, goes along with the gag, and gives an adequate but useless performance...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: G and S Sunken Vessel The Pirates of Penzance at Agassiz until next Saturday | 12/5/1970 | See Source »

...mangrove forests are valuable lumber and the areas where they have been destroyed have been taken over by bamboo which is very hard to get rid of and useless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Noam Chomsky: Back from Vietnam | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

...rehabilitation of violent criminals assumes that the subjects have normal brains. From evidence presented by Drs. Mark and Ervin, it is quite likely that a high proportion of people arrested for violent behavior have poor impulse control due to malfunctioning of the brain. In such cases, social rehabilitation is useless; a medical response through either drug treatment or surgical operations offers the only means of reversing that individual's predisposition towards violence...

Author: By Jerry T. Nepom, | Title: Books Violence and the Brain | 11/21/1970 | See Source »

...pass rush has dumped opposing quarterbacks six times in the last two games for minus 49 yards. Crone has shown a tendency to take a lot of time looking for receivers, which is effective against the Brown pass rush, but suicidal against the Yale rush. Screen passes have been useless in trying to slow down the rush as the Elis nailed three screens for no gain in the last two games...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Harvard Backs Matched Against Yale Line | 11/19/1970 | See Source »

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