Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early '70s when narcotics traffic from Mexico increased, he reluctantly became a "narc." For about five years, Lawrence and a select team stalked the desert like a posse out of the Old West. They seized millions of dollars' worth of drugs and airplanes, and scores of smugglers who had figured the harsh, 13,000-sq.-mi. wastes of the desert could serve as a safe private landing field. In one successful two-week camp-out near a remote airstrip, his team bagged a DC-10, two tons of marijuana, a four-wheel-drive truck and four smugglers...
...jell of metaphysical islands. Now and then, at inaugurations and wars and such, they act like a single nation. But, day in and out, home for a great many Americans is not only where you hang your hat and scratch where it itches, but the only place on earth worth living in. - Frank Trippett
...Ohio last winter, Judge Neil W. Whitfield sentenced Robert W. Attwood, 20, who had stolen $10 worth of beer from a neighbor's garage, to four to 25 years in jail. On the same day, the same judge sentenced Mary Murray, a motor vehicles official, to five years probation for embezzling $8,000 in public funds...
...Traveling Runner's Guide (Dutton; $5.95) is a rather straightforward listing of safe, scenic places to run in 21 cities around the country and may, for the dedicated, be worth carrying along on a business trip. The Runner's Guide to the U.S.A. (Summit; $12.95 hardcover, $6.95 paper) offers information on some 200 distance races, from four miles on up, with evaluations of the courses, the facilities available and the prizes awarded finishers. Target 26 (Collier; $4.95) provides some practical advice for anyone interested in marathons. The book is written in the same style...
Fourteen days and 13 plane trips later, they would pronounce their experiences "Çavaut le voyage"- It's worth the trip. Wearing Western string ties, tractor caps, Grand Canyon sweat shirts, Navajo necklaces and Mickey Mouse T shirts, they would flourish a Gallic gesture: thumbs...