Word: worthlessness
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Master Stroke. At war's end. Hong Kong was a wreck. Its harbor facilities had been destroyed by bombings, and two-thirds of its population had fled. The colony was flooded with worthless currency called "duress notes," which the Japanese had forced the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp. to issue. The British acted boldly: with the help of the local government and the Bank of England, the corporation redeemed every duress note at face value-an operation costing $30 million. "A master stroke," sighed one relieved financier. "Nothing did more to restore Hong Kong's prestige so quickly...
...more human way." The letters show how little Freud had to sustain him, except for psychoanalysis. He had no faith in progress or people: "In the depths of my heart I can't help being convinced that my dear fellow men, with a few exceptions, are worthless...
...early-fatalistic, who put together gangs more readily than novels. Here Goodman offers perhaps his best insight: a view of a delinquent as powerlessly struggling for life within, not resigned from, an unacceptable world. We are reminded of Dostoevski. As Goodman puts it, "On the streets, they feel worthless and abandoned; in the reformatory, they are accepted back home." This is "delinquency-in-order-to-get-caught," or less clumsily, crime for the sake of punishment that implies 'belonging...
...meet these bills, Bill Zeckendorf is preparing a plan for new financing, to save both Freedomland and Webb & Knapp's Freedomland Inn, a $6,000,000 motel which is being built on the property adjoining the park and which would be relatively worthless if the entertainment center folded...
...slipping a hundred-dollar bill into a sandwich and eating it. Poor Timothy Dexter wanted desperately to break into the upper crust, but he hadn't a prayer. All he had was money, made by buying up Continental dollars for pennies when most people thought they would become worthless. Overnight a man of affairs instead of a lowly leather dresser, he was still despised by the other well-to-do. He was uncouth, uneducated, a prodigious boozer and a shameless wencher. His wife was a shrew, his son a boor, his poor daughter none too bright and also addicted...