Word: worthier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Times last week deplored the fact that "unwelcome guests" can "prance easily into our midst while hundreds of thousands of worthier souls are barred altogether." But U.S. law lets Latin Americans immigrate without a quota. Political asylum seekers are tested for: pauperism, subversion, moral turpitude. Neither Pérez Jiménez nor Estrada is anywhere near broke; the strongman is said to have squirreled away $250 million. Neither has Communist or Fascist ties, nor has either plotted against the succeeding government (the ground for denying Perón a U.S. visa). Neither is technically guilty of moral turpitude...
...arguments, the Oxonians had to admit that their worthy opponents were worthier than they had expected ("They're extraordinarily good, you know," said Rees-Mogg). The judges-former Governor William S. Flynn of Rhode Island, Justice Harold Williams of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, and Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Harvard Law School-apparently agreed. Their unanimous decision: victory for Norfolk -the first U.S. team to defeat the gentlemen from Oxford...
...alarming portion of young people in Cleveland (where I live) seem rude, insolent and very vague about what is right or wrong. This includes seemingly trivial things: shouting at people walking by, rude jokes about girls, exaggerated "sex-interest," exaggerated "money-consciousness," and disinterest in anything worthier than crime novels, gangster films and certain magazines . . . ADOLF A. PERLES Cleveland...
...sported at Radcliffe. Thus, our status is not fundamentally changed: we still manage to please some of the people all of the time. And the columns of the CRIMSON will cease to resemble a Louella Parsons forum on The Moral Cupidity of lugrid Bergman, and perhaps return to subjects worthier of its aspiring journalists and ostensibly-intelligent contributors. Please, please, let us enjoy one of women's oldest and most harmless prerogatives: the last word. Susan Seldman '50 Dorothy Judd '51 Judy Illsley '51 Janice Bowman '51 Shirley Laird '53 Marianne Sorensen...