Word: worthlessly
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...foolishness and yet they are also apt to envy it, for it is illuminated by the saintly simpleton's strange, special kind of dignity. Unpretentiously, almost crudely sketched, Gimpel is an unforgettable character, deeply moving in his gentle submission to all blows, his dogged love of a worthless wife, his quiet expectation of the end: "When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception. God be praised: there even Gimpel cannot be deceived...
...savings, became so bad that it took a wheelbarrow full of marks to buy a suit of clothes. The experience made him a devout believer in the sound mark. His wife still remembers their marriage in 1923 as taking place "ten days after the currency reform," which replaced the worthless mark with...
...allowed to carry away more than 300 of the new marks (about $16); the rest was payable after a six-day wait. Unable to cross the border, businessmen and bankers in West Berlin found themselves in helpless possession of millions of East German marks that by nightfall had become worthless...
...young man with the mournful features of a card player who has aces wired, Murray could not ask alms as a disabled vet, since he had not been in service. Instead, with the customary request for $1, he made a frank pitch to the effect that the next-to-worthless crucifixes or rosary bracelets were "being sent to you by an enterprise that is owned and operated for the benefit of Murray Kram." Murray did not bother with Irish-sounding names ("I don't think more than 40% or 50% of the people with Irish names are Catholics"), filled...
...every $1 the U.S. gets in return. The latest: a route across the U.S. for Australia's Qantas Airlines which will produce at least $4,000,000 annually in return for concessions (including a route over the South Pole for the U.S.) that U.S. airmen flatly call "worthless...