Word: worthlessness
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Since 1918, when the Soviets repudiated $75 million worth of czarist gold bonds sold to Americans, the Romanov two-headed eagles have theoretically been worthless. Yet hope springs eternal, and several thousand bonds are annually traded on the American Stock Exchange, where they move up and down according to the temperature of U.S.-Soviet relations. The Nazi-Soviet pact in 1939 sent the $1,000 bonds to $1.86, their bottom; the Yalta honeymoon with the U.S. (1945) raised them to a peak $220. They dropped to $20 in the 1950 cold war, rose to $125 on the strength of last...
...beginning of 1956, Jenner was not even showing much interest in leading his own faction of the Indiana G.O.P. organization. He predicted the ignominious defeat of Capehart and other Republicans in Indiana next November. While his lieutenants sour-graped that control of the Indiana G.O.P. would be worthless in the great defeat, Jenner was saying that the Republican Party, ruined by the Eisenhower leadership, must be destroyed and rebuilt on the Jenner pattern...
...Houphouet" is a Baule word meaning "pit for excrement." His father's parents, desperate when their first four children died in infancy, adopted the tribal custom of giving the fifth child a name indicating that he was unloved, unlovable and worthless, to divert the evil spirits that had taken the first four. The local sorcerer recommended Houphouet. "It worked," says Houphouet-Boigny, who. like all his descendants, must forever bear the name which saved his father...
...other face-fall came in the hearing room of a House-Senate committee investigating Oregon's Al Sarena Mines, Inc. and land grants that it received in 1954 in the Rogue River National Forest. Neuberger had long wanted such an investigation, charging that the Al Sarena claims were worthless as mining property, and that the grants were made only because Al Sarena's owners wanted to strip the claims of valuable timber. This, Neuberger insisted, was part of a deep Republican giveaway plot. Cried he: "If this Al Sarena case were allowed to stand as a precedent...
...Word on Lola Sir: I was distressed to read in your Jan. 2 issue the description of the incomparable Lola Montez as a "hussy." My dictionary defines "hussy" as a "worthless creature," and surely a woman who was able to counsel kings and inspire geniuses was not worthless, and her mastery of the arts of love was a supreme accomplishment...