Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inadequacy of his law to handle labor problems in times of national stress. The government's dilemma is this; on one side there are production schedules which must be kept, on the other there is the constitutionally protected right to strike. The Taft-Hartley Law's injunction powers are worthless here because their use simply gives each side eighty days more to think up bigger and better arguments against each other. And if the Miners' strike of 1947 is any indication, the government cannot make an injunction stick anyway. What is needed, then, is some agency which, with the ability...
...this approach, claiming that students' reactions are not adequate to guide the planning of so important a program, but this objection ignores the fact that G.E. must influence students to succeed. Regardless of how fine a program it seems or how profound the theory behind it is, it is worthless if it fails to produce in students the traits of mind which it is designed to produce...
...difficult task of stringing the audience along as part of the investigatory committee (while the author constantly emphasizes that it is worthless to search for the truth) falls to the two main characters, played by Mildred Dunnock and Martin Gabel. With no distinctive characteristics other than their separate visions of the family set-up, they still manage to become credible, and one's sympathy switches periodically from one to the other. Miss Dunnock particularly, is excellent, her expressions and voice wavering just on the borderline between madness and sanity...
Protestants seem to feel they are the mother of freedom of interpretation of religion, and are doing an enormous job in delivering worthless brats. Chief offenders are the Baptists and Methodists, who insist on being "martyred" in Catholic countries while they practice anti-Catholicism daily in our "democratic" South . . . These pesty Baptists and friends will force their way to Colombia, Mexico, and even on the Pope's front lawn with the effrontery of troublemakers rather than the bearers of the Word of Peace. Is bigotry a one-way affair...
...style reactions. The preferred stocks of Central States, which had long since shrunk to a nubbin, came suddenly to life. Overnight, the $7 preferred shot up from 22 to 35 a share, the $6 preferred from 4¾ to 12½, and even the common stock, deemed almost worthless, rose from 4? to 12?. In a backhand sort of way, the rise was a vote of confidence in Harrison Williams-that is, in his ability to pay the money, if he must...