Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worth it, according to Staff Photographer Neil Leifer, who followed the Pope in four U.S. cities and Ireland. John Paul's unpredictable and expressive gestures-reaching into a crowd, picking up a baby-would have been "inconceivable" for Pope Paul VI, notes Leifer, who covered that Pontiffs U.N. visit in 1965. The Polish Pope, says Leifer, "has visual charisma and all the right moves. He kisses the ground as soon as he lands. There's the first picture!" But like his note-taking colleagues on the assignment, Leifer was often thwarted by overprotective police, impenetrable crowds and uncooperative...
...investment diamonds" of one carat or more have risen 45% in value and now often sell for $31,000 per stone. But smaller and flawed gems, which are normally sold only for jewelry to hide the imperfections, may be poor buys; four quarter-carat, lesser-quality stones are usually worth much less than a single good-quality, one-carat stone...
...what will that person have won? Depending who you believe, the Florida caucuses mean everything or nothing. The prize clearly isn't worth the fight. Voters are only selecting half the delegates to a convention that will take a straw vote. And the straw vote means nothing. State officials will appoint the other half of the delegates that appear at the convention. It isn't until March 11, 1980, that Florida voters have their own primary--the one that really counts...
...military strategy. Presumably the Korean war raised no questions about the use of nuclear weapons; Mandelbaum asserts only that Eisenhower's veiled references to The Bomb helped end the war. Presumably, in writing the history of American strategic thought in the last three decades, the Vietnam war is worth no more than a paragraph of simplistic analysis; for Mandelbaum the war was "first a laboratory...then a full-fledged war, and finally a national disaster...
...those few minutes, condensed out of a weekend's worth of meetings and marches, T.V. viewers saw policemen use mace and clubs and dogs and firehoses to disperse protesters, so much violence that many of the demonstrators claimed a moral victory...