Word: worthlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slang tumbles across the stage like a wild Western river, thoughts as big as the countryside: "You look like forty miles of rough road," says Weston to his son. The frontier reduces life to its primal elements, revealing raw humanity, a force as powerful and perverse as the worthless farm the characters inhabit...
...games last season, the thirdsacker connected for only 19 hits and a 192 batting average. Like Belanger, the golden-gloved Baltimore Orioles short-stop, he was called a good fielder but worthless at the plate...
...fallibility of preprimary polls leads some to dismiss their utility altogether. Says Lucien Haas, an aide to Senate Majority Whip Alan Cranston of California: "The polls are absolutely worthless." That is an exaggeration. The real problem is that since polling can assess the views of a body of voters but not which of those voters will actually vote, a preprimary sampling is only an approximation of what is likely to happen. Any politician or pundit who attributes to such a poll more accuracy or importance than it can realistically have does so at his own risk...
...rich-quick operation is no sooner closed down than another takes its place. Federal and state agents are usually one step behind boiler-room artists ready to sell to a gullible public. Says Attorney General Robert Abrams: "The same types of salesmen who brought us underwater land, worthless uranium stocks and phony gold certificates are in the process of perpetrating on the American public their latest scheme-oil futures contracts." A lawyer with the New York attorney general's office last week lamented that the masters of scam would probably soon be peddling chopped-liver futures...
What a foolish statement Biologist Ruth Hubbard made, saying that in vitro fertilization reinforces society's notions that women's lives are worthless unless they bear children [Jan. 21]. No one is forcing fertilization on anyone, but now unfertile women have another option. It's quite miraculous...