Word: unkindest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter charged that Khomeini stooped to "collaboration" with Israel in order to secure U.S. weapons, sponsored terrorists who have "filled the entire world with hatred against our country" and led Iran to the "verge of bankruptcy." In the unkindest cut, the missive laid the blame for recent setbacks in the eight-year-old war with Iraq at Khomeini's feet and begged him to "stop trafficking in the blood of our martyrs...
...unkindest cut of all, though, came from Olympic Coach Dave Peterson who said, "[Harvard] and Vermont look pretty equal...
...workers, of course, have suffered losses. Among those who have, the rollbacks may involve nonwage items, ranging from lost vacation time to shrunken health benefits. But a pay reduction remains the unkindest cut. Buffy Mello, 34, a divorced mother of three, dreads the arrival of next March because she is among 950 workers at the USS-POSCO steel mill in Pittsburg, Calif., who will suffer a 4.5% pay reduction at that time. For Mello, a junior-grade electrician, the change will reduce her wages from $14.37 an hour to about $13.73, a difference of $108 a month. Other workers elsewhere...
Sooner or later there comes to every writer the two-thousand, three-thousand, five-thousand word lashing that doesn't just sting for the regulation seventy-two hours but rankles all his life. Zuckerman now had his: to reassure in his quotable storehouse till he died, the unkindest review of all, embedded indelibly (and just about as useful) as "Abou Ben Adhem" and "Annabel Lee," the first two poems he'd had to memorize for a high-school English class...
...year-old bay who won eight of his ten races in 1981 and $1,798,030, to extend his record winnings to $3,022,810. John Henry is not a steel-driving man exactly; he is a gelding, a tragic condition referred to around the backstretch as the unkindest...