Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the score 21-16 and only eight and a half minutes in the game, Joe Restic elected to go for two points after the touchdown as one would have been worthless. Foster was tackled less than a yard short of the goal line on a keeper...
...bargaining continued, tensions grew. Oswald and Schwartz were bitterly disappointed when the inmates discarded the court injunction as worthless. Apparently the rebels feared both physical beatings by guards if they surrendered?despite the promises?and criminal prosecution. They also felt that if they released the hostages, they would lose their bargaining power...
...funeral staged con brio-the spectacular obsequies of a clown, his hearse drawn by men in horse suits, his widow a clown with pendulous breasts, the orator a grotesque who maligns the deceased (suffocated by an ostrich egg at the tender age of 200) as vile and worthless...
Discipline proved a more formidable problem than it had seemed, however. Although the University had engaged two commercial film crews to provide identification, the film turned out to be worthless-someone had mixed up the instructions and the photographers turned their cameras on the speakers rather than the audience. Harvard was finally forced to buy a fifteen-minute film from United Press International...
...social worker-tutor travels with the boys wherever they go, but show biz is still a schooling handicap. But then again, the boys, who; get only a small allowance each week, aren't subject to the pressures of traveling grown-ups -you know, wasting time with those worthless chickies on the road, migraine headaches, creaking bones, drugs and alcohol-instead, they unwind nightly with pillow fights and card games, Scrabble and Monopoly...