Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then fell the news of Stalin's mortal stroke. Republican leaders grabbed it as a chance to avert a partisan brawl. The resolution, said Taft, was not worth a big fight. The Administration began studying ways more effective than resolutions to weaken the Communist grip on the slave nations...
...hopes on a statement of principle enunciated by Cordell Hull after Mexico expropriated U.S. oil companies in 1938. Secretary of State Hull conceded that a government had the right to expropriate property, but insisted that compensation must be "adequate, effective and prompt."* By depositing bonds of doubtful worth to United Fruit's account in the National Treasury. Guatemala seems only to have been prompt...
...this way candidates for the Class Day Committee would not need to round up a second petition's worth of signatures and the Committee would have its members chosen in a fairer, more competitive election...
Faculty instructors then had three years in which to prove their worth, and when Perkins was called in by Mr. Conant in the spring of his third year, he expected a polite handshake and best wishes in his new job, wherever that might be. When Conant offered him the job at Lowell House, Perkins recalls that he was so surprised that he could only utter a one-word expletive, which would hardly bear repeating...
...years. Sometimes his landlady invites him down for an evening of bridge, and tuna-fish sandwiches. "He was aware of the larger possibilities of life, the beautiful, excruciating entanglements that other people got into, and survived, but these required an enormous effort, and in his observation were rarely worth it; he liked better the passing warmth that asked nothing of him beyond the moment's courtesy or interest...