Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unsalvageable Situation. When the son of Receiver Jon Henderson was treated in a hospital, Henderson was told that the Wheels' hospital insurance was worthless and was billed $500. When paychecks stopped coming, the families of players doubled and tripled up in houses to save rent...
Kissinger, reports Schecter, sees the current energy crisis as a problem that demands the industrial nations enter "a new era of creativity and cooperation that will help the developing nations as well." If nothing is done and oil prices remain high, Kissinger fears, all debts will become worthless paper and trigger a widespread industrial collapse that would have a greater impact on the developing world than on industrial nations...
September 1974 was a month that very few could enjoy. It was squalid--full of craziness without class. As worthless a month, in fact, as any in recent memory. The evidence...
...Making an arrest in plainclothes, Serpico is fired on by uniformed officers who don't recognize him as a cop. The scene develops almost humorously, with Serpico crouched in a corner, frantically waving his badge and shouting "police officer," but the point is unmistakably made that his life is worthless to any enemy on the force...
...become, he says, "uncertain of what America had become," avoided. Kremen took off for a few months in search of the real America, having decided beforehand that "to pass through the country like a tourist with a tape recorder and a journalist's notebook would simply prove worthless." Instead, Kremen went hitchhiking around, spending a few weeks as a factory worker, a few in college towns, a stint in the South and a time living with blacks. His intentions were purely noble, but he made one crucial error: He didn't leave behind his tape recorder and notebook...