Word: worthlessness
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...oppose the Russians, the West has on hand a pathetic collection of 12 to 15 divisions-seven on occupation duty in Germany (two U.S., two British, three French), four in France, one in Belgium, and the equivalent of about three divisions in Italy. Some of these are next to worthless, almost all are underequipped. Some French units are armed with aged Hotchkiss machine guns saved from World War I. Italian soldiers have 1891 Mannlicher-Carcano rifles which as long ago as 1915 they called "humanitarian rifles" because they usually missed the enemy...
...Open Hand. In Columbus, Ohio, J. Edward Dunnebacke told the court why he had given a waitress a worthless $10 check as a tip: "I wanted to do something nice...
...view of human nature. He says that although his poems depict suffering and failure, they nevertheless are full of genial appreciation of the game of life. "Human beings have a moral residuum that makes them worthwhile, even though, like the pitchblende from which radium is extracted, they appear pretty worthless at times...
This is not to say that anti-histaminics have been proved worthless, but the council wants proof of their value to be shown by wider and far more searching studies, than any yet undertaken. And the council is still worried about harmful side effects (e.g., drowsiness, dizziness, damage to bone marrow, reduction of white blood cells) reported to follow the use of some anti-histaminics in certain cases...
...sight, hospitable Ernenek brought out his choicest delicacy, "a thoroughly chewed hodgepodge of caribou eyes, ptarmigan dung, auk slime and fermented bear brain," which the visitor rudely refused. Then wife Asiak had a happy idea: "Maybe he is not hungry. Maybe he just wants to laugh with a worthless woman." Beamed Ernenek: "Make yourself beautiful...