Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pick up the refugees, the Viet Minh coldly made it known, then that ship would be fired on. In the Asia of victorious Ho Chi Minh and his big brother Mao, there are millions marooned upon desolate sandbars: the act of rescue, if these Asians this late are considered worth saving, will take power, humanity and a steely nerve...
...creatures as a schoolboy. He had. just entered law school-to round out his education-when the Communist revolution caught up with him. Escaping to a Black Sea port, he signed on a ship that he thought was bound for Ceylon, but ended up in New York with 14? worth of Turkish money in his pocket, spent his 20th birthday on Ellis Island...
Competing Managing Editor Ed Murray of the crime-loving Los Angeles Mirror disagreed: "The case has mystery, society, sex and glamour, but as a day-in-and-day-out story, it has been duller than dishwater." Many another newsman raised the question: Is the Sheppard case worth the space U.S. dailies are giving...
...excavated at a cost of about $3.000,000. Bill Zeckendorf told his men to keep on sampling. Last week, instead of a banana, they found a bonanza. They had struck gold 40 ft. down. Said Zeckendorf: "We will be able to sluice more than $1,000,000 worth of gold out of that sand. But I wouldn't say that this development means the whole city of Denver should...
...Brothers; Warner followed with A Star Is Born, and Fox with Carmen Jones. Now M-G-M has made a musical burlesque of some California cults. The idea is brutally chewed up in the execution, but enough remarkable bits and pieces land on the screen to make Athena well worth a look...