Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undergraduate contacted last night, Martin S. Baskin '54, called the posting of the lists "in extremely bad taste." Baskin, who has already paid his dues, added, a "few dollars just can't be worth that much. It's an unfair form of pressure...
While Rita Hay worth languished at their home in Greenwich, Conn., her new husband, Crooner Dick Haymes, beset by nerves, alimony worries, a mountain of debts, deportation threats and high blood pressure, languished in a Manhattan hospital, at week's end shakily headed home...
...sentimental buck and wing at the annual picnic of Murder, Inc. The rest of the dances, however, seem overrehearsed-as though the dancers had long since stopped enjoying them. Only the music, some of the very best that Cole Porter ever wrote, is unimpaired; the picture is almost worth seeing just to hear it again...
...little more than a year, Balboa, a wise, courageous and likable conquistador in Mrs. Romoli's version of history, had been confirmed as governor of the colony. He set out to explore, and to make friends with the Cueva Indians. That the Cuevans may have been worth making friends with is suggested in contemporary descriptions of them. An affable, cigar-smoking race, the Cuevans were also uncommonly handsome, and their women "displayed unexpected aspects of sophistication. Smallish, large-eyed with thick and often wavy hair, they had beautiful narrow bodies of which they were inordinately proud . . . They took extraordinary...
...Training. In Flint, Mich., arrested for forging $558 worth of checks, John A. McLeod, 25, tried to convince police that he was a college student majoring in criminal psychology who wanted "to get the feeling" of a criminal at work...