Word: worst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this mad anger we wake up with sustains us through the day. We've reached a breaking point many times, but I'm controlling myself for my husband and he's controlling himself for me. It's holding us together." The worst time for them is at night, after their neighbors and friends have gone and the noise of crickets washes over the house. "My husband doesn't sleep," Mrs. Kopechne said. "We try to find ways to avoid going to bed. We walk around and keep the lights on. When we finally...
...strongest currencies, but the convalescent British pound seems certain to come under renewed speculative attack. Although London affirmed its determination to maintain the price of sterling at its present $2.40 level, financiers are divided over whether Britain has the resources to make that decision stick. At the unlikely worst, a forced devaluation of sterling could start a chain reaction of other devaluations, throwing the international monetary apparatus into chaos...
...company announces, "I'm a farmer in a candy factory." "Whaddaya do?" asks a chorus of rural voices. "I milk chocolate." In another rib cracker, the straight man wonders: "Hey, Junior, how come I saw you eating with a knife at supper?" Junior: "My fork leaked." After the worst lines-not that any of them are good-an offstage hand socks it to the culprit with a rubber chicken. Or an animated donkey pops up and chortles: "Wouldn't that sop your gravy?" To the relief of CBS, Hee Haw, which has taken over the Smothers Brothers...
...crusade against the worst outbreak of inflation in 18 years, the Government has been struggling for months to create a climate of uncertainty among businessmen, consumers and investors. The rationale is that considerable uncertainty about the future course of the economy is necessary to erase the nation's deep-seated inflationary psychology. As long as people persist in believing that economic growth is perpetual and price rises are inevitable, they will continue to buy and borrow in order to beat still further increases. Once people begin to doubt that "good times" will last forever, the theory goes, then everyone...
...only solution seems to be outright government own ership of the commuter lines. So far, though, that has not worked either. The nation's biggest commuter line, the Long Island Rail Road, was taken over by New York State in 1966. Today the L.I.R.R. is in the worst trouble...