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Word: worthlessness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drug. Facing four of Laetrile's leading advocates-three of whom have been convicted of conspiring to smuggle and distribute the apricot-pit extract into the U.S.-Kennedy asked each in turn whether he would "stop, halt and cease raising false hopes" if an objective test found Laetrile worthless. All four agreed. But before the session ended, it was clear that no Government-sponsored trial would appease Laetrile's fanatic supporters or settle the emotional furor over the drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Challenging the Apricot-Pit Gang | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...hope, why not let them have it?' " Otherwise, says Arizona State Representative Herb Everett, "we are making criminals out of those who want to use Laetrile." Most potent of all has been the plea that people who are dying from cancer should be free to try even worthless cures. The New York Times agrees, and California Governor Jerry Brown believes that people should be allowed to ingest anything that has not been proved to be harmful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Damn the Doctors--and Washington | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

Summitry has been in bad odor of late, criticized as a worthless exercise at best, or an outright danger at worst. But in an era of increasing global interdependence, the ritual gathering of government leaders serves one unquestionably valuable purpose: it enables them to take one another's measure at first hand, to size up their fellow leaders' abilities and weaknesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: A Socko Performance at the Summit | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

...synapses no pauses no breaks no punctuation whatsoever because that makes it easier to write and makes it harder to read but who cares and there is less chance that an entire sentence can be blown off in the shop blown off in the shop my is that totally worthless totally inside joke getting tired just like me and just like the guy in Network did you see that over vacation bubby the Atlanta Rhythm Section with Journey and Starcastle at the Orpheum on April 10 at 8 pm did you catch that it was the first listing...

Author: By Read HARRYS Column, | Title: ROCK | 4/14/1977 | See Source »

...sign painter and square dance fiddler to keep his family from starving to death. Pampa is an oilboom town gone bust, a grim, Depressionera morning-after the gala twenties, when the oilmen and farmers came in droves. Now the money and water are gone, the land parched and worthless. All that's left is the dust--huge, billowing black clouds of destruction and death rumbling across the prairie. Production designer Michael Haller's re-creation of a Pampa dust-storm stunningly conveys the awesome power that often terrorized the dust bowl's inhabitants. When Woody sings in "The Great Dust...

Author: By Andrew T. Karron, | Title: Dust Bowl Refugee | 3/10/1977 | See Source »

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