Word: worthlessness
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...Vincent's estimated $120 million fortune, Brooke Astor told of Vincent's deep feeling for J. J.: "Nothing but contempt." Captain Astor, a Navy officer in both World Wars, regarded J. J., said Brooke Astor, daughter of a Marine Corps general, as "the most useless and worthless member of society, and he despised him because he was a slacker and a draft evader...
...fervor was not enough. Wheat had been so closely planted that it toppled over or died of contagious rust. Newly dug potatoes rotted in the fields while peasants were rushed off to erect dams. Jerry-built mines collapsed, and backyard iron proved worthless for industrial use. In the cities there was noisy talk of a bumper harvest, but long queues of housewives found the stores empty...
Congress' joint resolution proclaiming "Captive Nations Week" was stupidly ill-timed and completely worthless...
...oppo. nents as "fanciful") that 'would permit Hawaiians to buy, "for as little as $50 an acre," a total of 144,480 state-owned acres on four of the islands. "Hoax!" cried the Democrats, and even many a top Republican admitted that much of this land was either worthless or else so encumbered by long-term leaseholds that the plan would never work. Bill Quinn firmly denied that his scheme was just so much poi-in-the-sky, still promises to deliver...
Under Carbondale run four thick seams of anthracite coal. Over the years, mining operations honeycombed the earth beneath the city with tunnels. Where the seams came close enough to the hilly surface, great machines stripped away the worthless overburden, exposing the coal. The city government found abandoned stripping craters handy places to dump garbage and rubbish. The Hudson Coal Co. urged the city fathers to stop this sloppy practice, but its warning was ignored. In 1946 the rubbish started burning, and before it could be extinguished, the fire ignited the coal. Flames raced through hundreds of yards of abandoned...