Word: worthlessness
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...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...
...least 19 members of SDS and Progressive Labor paid the Greater Boston Peace Action Coalition for transportation to the April 24 antiwar demonstration in Washington with over $1350 in worthless checks. Five Harvard students and one Harvard professor and his wife are involved...
...three days after the checks were submitted. Two checks were returned for insufficient funds and one SDS member, who has been tentatively identified as a student at Northeastern, opened an account at the Harvard Trust Company the same day on which he paid out a total of $270 in worthless checks to NPAC...