Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Started as a mutual self-help scheme among British Commonwealth nations, the Colombo Plan has since expanded to nearly all free Asian nations, produced in five years an interchange of $2 billion worth of economic development. Donor nations, e.g., Britain, Canada, Australia, have poured in capital and know-how, while recipient nations have exchanged such experts and such know-how as they have, e.g., India has sent four aeronautical engineers to Indonesia; Singapore is teaching timber grading to a Nepalese trainee; two Japanese rice physiologists are scattering seed in Ceylon...
...work came when they held a press conference in the Overseas Press Club. From some two dozen U.S. reporters, the Russians were tossed many a question too hot to field. Asked why the Russians jammed Voice of America broadcasts, one of the visitors finally cracked: "It is not worth the bother to liberate us." When an Israeli correspondent asked about the disappearance of several Jewish reporters in Russia, Valentin Mikhailovich Berezhkov, deputy chief editor of the weekly New Times (who with Izakov acted as interpreter for the group), blandly suggested: "Ask Mr. Molotov...
Total church membership, for what it may be worth, is now equal to 60.3% of the population of the continental U.S.-a gain of 2.8% for 1954. Protestant increase: 2.3%. Roman Catholic increase: 2.9%. Population increase...
...bravura extravagance of Cyrano de Bergerdc. As the Pinocchio-beaked hero, José Ferrer gave the season's best starring performance, whether spitting an opponent on his sword or agonizing for love of Roxane, who, as played by Britain's enchanting Claire Bloom, seemed well worth it. Playwrights '56 struck a more sombre note with Ernest Hemingway's The Battler, whose familiar plot (a heavyweight champion is broken by success) was well-served by Paul Newman as the crazed, broken-faced pug, and Dewey Martin as a young runaway who finds the world both terrible...
...picture of U.S. business as it went into the year's final quarter could hardly have been brighter. As a hint of things to come, Bennett S. Chappie Jr., assistant executive vice president of U.S. Steel, predicted that in 1956, the United States will produce nearly $400 billion worth of goods and services, for an alltime record...