Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find the store which sells nothing but seashells and related items in the line of maritime oddities. Think of the look on your Grandmother's face when you present her with a carefully--wrapped, three--feet across chunk of purple brain coral. If this sort of thrill is worth 125 clams to you, go ahead. If you're a bit more modest you could send her a shark tooth necklace or even a complete shark jaw for a reasonable amount. But if Poverty is your middle name, you could send out a fleet of 99 cent Knobby Urchins...
...February eased into March, with all the niceties that make a month worth living, if not remembering. The snow blackened and turned to crumbs. The Faculty got ready to make itself famous with this beast called a Core Curriculum, and smiled as The Times and half the other newspapers in the country dropped them onto the front page--not the lead story, to be sure, but still down there on the front page, set in a nice conservative block of type...
...bomber costs too much and isn't worth much," Warnke said, adding that large nuclear-powered aircraft-carriers are also not "cost-effective...
Other books by women authors such as "Mommie Dearest," stories of actress Joan Crawford by her daughter Christina Crawford, and "Moments of Being," unpublished autobiographical writings by Virginia Woolfe, seem to be popular with college-age readers, Peter Barkley, a short-order buyer at Words Worth, said last week...
Four stores, the Coop, Harvard Book Store, Paperback Booksmith, and Words Worth, cited "The Women's Room" by Marilyn French, a novel whose story begins in a Sever Hall restroom and goes on to study women of this generation, as a heavy seller...