Word: worthlessly
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From Mr. O'Brien book, I couclude that everyone who trusted anyone else in the Congo was fool. Mr. Tshombe was completely justified in believing that Hammarskjold's word, like his own, was worthless. David D. Friedman...
...days after an election nothing is so worthless as pre-election political punditry...
...worthless check, a total wreck, a flop...
Vanishing Indians. In many a subdivision house and functional apartment, the most cherished object is an old store sign or a circus poster, a shaving mug, a spinning wheel or an ornate mailbox, a collection of cast-iron toys or a bridal bouquet under glass. Many once worthless objects, such as Victorian dolls and samplers, brass coal scuttles and decorated washbasins, are greeted with glad, excited cries of discovery. A cigar-store Indian in good condition-if you can find one-fetches up to $1,500 today...
...move out to the farm with his wonder ful parents, soon have a baby brother for little Ellen Mary. It is an idyllic existence. Too idyllic, perhaps, for it is a world created to serve the plot-a happy, integrated limbo unsullied by social pressures until Julie's worthless first husband reappears, armed with a giant Teddy bear and some mealy platitudes about the joys of parenthood...