Word: worth
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...immediate halt" to the hydrogen tests-"without conditions." For years, the Russians had been arguing for nuclear disarmament -without conditions. Dwight Eisenhower, and Harry Truman before him, have rejected the proposition. Reason: the U.S. insists on at least one condition, mutual inspection, that would make the Soviet word worth the paper it is written...
Despite certain misgivings with Fromm's theoretical approach, this book more than proves its worth in the searching analysis of unhealthy kinds of love. As in other works Fromm pokes brilliantly through history and myth for examples to support his themes. Yet this volume again leaves one wondering whether Fromm isn't more of a critic than a liberator...
There is considerable doubt that membership in NSA is worth $600, not because of positive proof, but because of no information on the subject. Even NSA's staunchest supporters admit that the Student Council has never availed itself of any of the organization's services. NSA apparently has an information office for common college problems, such as student parking. If such a service exists, the council has never bothered to find out what, if anything, NSA has to say on parking or any other subject...
...praised the public for recognizing the worth of the greyhound racing, which draws "more people than the Red Sox." "They found out about it without any help," according to Egan. He cited the low attendance at Harvard games as a sign that the public is catching on to the "fraud...
Endorsement. In El Paso, asked why he always drew his forged checks on the Continental National Bank of Fort Worth, James Delbert Smith, described by the FBI as "one of the nation's top" forgers, explained: "They are the best-looking checks I have ever seen...