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Word: worst (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mart is going up in Creston, 20 miles away, and Greenfield's merchants fear the worst. Wall Street traders will hail America's richest man, Sam Walton, and his relentless retailing march across the country. But Walton's new store, dropped in a field of asphalt (one of 1,400 in his discount empire) will suck a bit more of the commercial life out of Greenfield and similar towns in the same radius. Another comfortable old building with arched windows and high ceilings may have to be padlocked. Not so long ago they were all open, and the square filled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tapestry of Prairie Life | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

Judging from her latest album Brave and Crazy, Melissa Etheridge has a love life you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Love's Labor Won | 10/6/1989 | See Source »

UConn has been a consistently strong opponent for Harvard--the Crimson lost, 1-0, to the Huskies last season, but beat them in the NCAA playoffs the season before. This Connecticut team, however, is the worst the Crimson has played in several seasons, according to both Getman and Mills...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Connecticut Shuts Out Men Booters, 1-0 | 10/5/1989 | See Source »

...what would you have us do? Take to the streets? For what? We have had ten relatively good years of economic growth and domestic tranquillity. Yes, there is some retrenchment now. But consider the previous ten years, the time of the Cultural Revolution, when everything was at its worst. Do we want to return to that? Take to the streets against those with the guns and risk all that we've gained? Who but the hotheads can honestly say such an action would be worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...that it was impossible to see. Trapped children struggled to get out the front door, windows and one rear-end exit door. "I didn't expect to be alive, but I'm alive," said one. Twenty youngsters died and 63 people were injured, including the two drivers, in the worst school-bus accident in Texas history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas: Death on a Clear Day | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

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