Word: worthlessness
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...Jack's life into cocktail party epics. At Groton, the reverend Endicott Peabody delivered a sermon on "the egg who just got by." During World War II, the Nazis took him prisoner. "For once in his life, he had found himself in a situations where his privileged position was worthless. He had been forced, willy-nilly, to become a common man. "While Jock's escape from the Germans was courageous. Jock seemed to view the experience more as a picnic outing than a "sobering ordeal." He worried that the Germans had crushed the ripe pears that he was carrying. Though...
...poll that does not include Houston in the Top Ten desirable places to live is worthless [Jan. 11]. Houston is the only city in the U.S. where the frontier spirit and the American Dream still reign supreme...
...admitted that the top officials of his bank had given themselves $2.4 million in interest-free loans to protect their margin accounts in National City's stocks. Of the $50 billion in new stocks issued during the 1920s, another congressional committee said, "fully half have proved to be worthless . . . fraudulent." And when Utilities King Samuel Insull carried thousands of investors into bankruptcy, he protested at the prospect of indictment: "What have I done that every banker and business magnate has not done in the course of business...
...Crimson squad made an innumerable number of turnovers. The easiest baskets didn't fall through the hoop--even the many layup opportunities turned out to be worthless...
After reading the article on the tremendous rise of illegitimate births and abortions [Nov. 9], I see that easy access to birth control and abortion has not helped solve this problem. Too often human life is viewed as disposable or worthless unless related to our needs. Until we accept all human life as having value, illegitimacy will continue to rise...