Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inferno (20th Century-Fox). Robert Ryan, a young man about as rich as they come and as worthless as they go, is junketing in the great American Desert, along with his wife (Rhonda Fleming) and the man she secretly loves (William Lundigan). When Ryan falls from his horse and breaks a leg, the lovers ride off, leaving him to dry up and die in the staring sun. Ryan, whose spirit normally comes from a bottle, nevertheless finds the will to fight his way back to safety and salvation. The drama is high, but it would have been much heightened...
Astin, chief of the Bureau of Standards, because, he said, the bureau had not been "sufficiently objective" when it tested AD-X2 and pronounced it worthless. The scientific furor which followed caused Weeks to reinstate Astin temporarily (TIME, April 27), and the Senate Small Business Committee to announce it would hold a full investigation...
...Worthless Calf. The Texas wheat crop this year is expected to be about one-third of normal, the cotton crop one-half. Hardest hit of all are the cattle ranchers. Their ranges are burned up, their ponds and wells are going dry; most of the cattle they have left stand forlornly in the baking fields, ribs pressing against their skin...
...Being Foolish." U.N. military and diplomatic observers, many of whom had sympathized with the old man's stand, were angered by his conduct last week. U.S. officials were also angered when Rhee insinuated that President Eisenhower's promise of a post-armistice mutual-security pact was worthless. Even Rhee's own generals were reportedly telling him that it would be impossible for Korea to go it alone. And there were increasing signs that the ROK army would remain loyal to the U.N. Command in a showdown. Said one ROK army officer last week: "Of course...
...versus Special Interests" (often coupled with demands for high tariffs or more subsidy for a hitherto neglected special interest) are forever confusing the nation's deepest traditions and vitiating attempts at calm study. All the vocational training possible, all the calling to mind of obscure statistics, are by themselves worthless, for partisans of fighting faiths will take what serves their cause and find reason for denying the rest. It is the attitude taken at the beginning which counts...