Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tabitha first appears as a young girl in a small English town, orphaned and stuck with a dull, painfully married elder brother. Thirsty for adventure, she runs off with Bonser, a jovial fast-talking bounder who peddles worthless shares in country pubs. Bonser juggles her on his knee and cuddles her in bed, but he runs out when her money does...
...college training seems as worthless now as the advice from her mother, ."All you have to do is tell them stories and let them color pictures." The new teacher finally crosses the street and walks into the school building, but she decides that "the children are lucky. Most of them know what they're walking into. What about the new teachers? Nobody thought of us, I guess...
...oppose the Russians, the West has on hand a pathetic collection of 12 to 15 divisions-seven on occupation duty in Germany (two U.S., two British, three French), four in France, one in Belgium, and the equivalent of about three divisions in Italy. Some of these are next to worthless, almost all are underequipped. Some French units are armed with aged Hotchkiss machine guns saved from World War I. Italian soldiers have 1891 Mannlicher-Carcano rifles which as long ago as 1915 they called "humanitarian rifles" because they usually missed the enemy...
Home to Roost. In Milwaukee, an electrician treated his son and 39 other boys to chicken dinners in a restaurant, paid the bill with $20 in cash and the worthless $120 check the restaurateur had given him in 1948 in payment for some electrical work...
...Open Hand. In Columbus, Ohio, J. Edward Dunnebacke told the court why he had given a waitress a worthless $10 check as a tip: "I wanted to do something nice...