Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thirds of the 4,000 seats. But the Vice President listened as he talked, looked as he was looked at, and recommended that the G.O.P. make a real Texas try. During the campaign he flew 800 miles across the state, speaking to ever more enthusiastic crowds at Fort Worth, San Antonio and El Paso. On his recommendation, Dwight Eisenhower added Dallas to the presidential schedule. This week, as Nixon had hoped and expected, Texas was a real political battleground, and the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket had a chance to win the battle...
...Kremlin had to decide: Was it worth it to hound the revolutionaries into the hills, to fight for months a war of repression while the world looked on? Or was it better to cut their losses, settle for what control they could keep over Hungary, and take their chances at restraining other satellite nations from seizing the same opportunity? In six days the Hungarian people made history-six days that shook the world...
...studded with inflationary obstacles these days. After retiring from his last government job, Beveridge had felt secure about having enough gold for his golden years: "I was able to take with me for superannuation enough pounds to feel fairly happy for my future. Now each of those pounds is worth six shillings, eight pence. Our plans for useful old age are all going haywire . . . Like many others in their seventies ... I am in danger of living longer than I can afford to live...
...Girl. As the eager, unlettered Billie Dawn of Born Yesterday, Mary sashayed through her first comedy role without a live audience, and, as before with Peter Pan, gave one of the rare performances of the TV season. With a mincing, floozy strut, she sparkled (with $1,000,000 worth of Harry Winston jewels, two Maximilian minks and five Main-bocher originals) through that hilarious old gin-rummy game, and asked a visiting U.S. Senator's wife: "You want to wash your hands or anything, honey?" She also marked the beginning of her social awakenings by defining "peninsula" as "that...
...best educational use of the House system. A House is more than a dormitory. It is a device for preserving, in the midst of a large University, an intimate "collegiate way of living," that ideal brought from England at Harvard's beginning. The system has effectively proved its worth in the years before the War and since...