Word: worthlessness
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...girl sorely in need of it. The matriarch, in this case, has broken her hip and may never ride to the hounds again, so she has plenty of time to look back at her own willowy and willful stage. Should she have deserted her husband to run off with worthless Gerald? Should she have abandoned her illegitimate daughter to be brought up by a Belgian family? No, evidently, to the second question; the girl grew up to become the mistress of two German officers, and the women of the Resistance shaved off her hair. But a fierce, unfazed...
...that of setting "bogus," or "dead horse," which the International Typographical Union has been getting into contracts since 1871. In its broadest application, bogus compels a newspaper to employ workers to reset the advertisements that have been received and used in mat or plate form. The reset ad is worthless, often consigned at once to the composing-room hellbox for remelting. On the Washington Post and Times Herald, I.T.U. men last week were resetting ads that actually ran in 1957. The New York Times estimated that it dead-horsed 5,750,000 lines of display advertising last year alone...
...proposal soon ran into trouble for two reasons: 1) the Russians demanded veto power over the makeup and movements of inspection teams on Russian territory, thus rendering inspection worthless; 2) U.S. scientists discovered that they had seriously overestimated the ability of inspectors to detect underground explosions. Alarmed by the miscalculation, the Pentagon, the Atomic Energy Commission and some members of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy urgently asked President Eisenhower to modify the U.S. offer lest the U.S. get tied to a crippling agreement that an enemy could violate without detection...
Married. Walashan Prince Mukarram Jah Bahadur, 25, grandson and direct heir of the 74-year-old Nizam of Hyderabad (often called "the richest man on earth"), son of Azam Jah, 52, Prince of Berar, whose "polo ponies and worthless wenches" were too much for the Nizam, who disowned him in 1956; and Esra Birgen, 21, a student at the University of London and daughter of a prominent Turkish family; in London...
...Loosely translated: a crook sold him some worthless shares of common stock...