Word: worst
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month the Imperial forces had shattered Chinese defenses, trapping 300,000 Nationalist troops and forcing hundreds of thousands of the city's 1 million people to flee. On Dec. 12, 1937, Nanking fell. For the next six weeks, the area's remaining population would be subjected to the worst atrocities yet seen in modern warfare. More than 200,000 men, a fourth of them civilians, were immolated, bayoneted or tortured to death, and 20,000 women were raped...
...defense and diplomacy has often been cursed by backstabbing at the highest levels of Government. The problem became both acute and chronic with Richard Nixon. He believed in keeping his underlings as suspicious of one another as he was of them, and he liked to hear the worst about people behind their backs. His National Security Adviser, Henry Kissinger, frequently sniped at the State Department, until Nixon put him in charge there...
...Louis in the top five. Much maligned New York City was 15th in its overall crime rate and tenth in the homicide rate. No FBI figures were available for Miami, but statistics from local police indicated that the city apparently had the fifth highest murder rate and the fourth worst general crime record...
...especially since it is presented as a dream that overtakes Eriksson years later, when he encounters a young Oriental woman on a train who reminds him of the long-ago victim. In the dream, Meserve -- arrogant, competent, headlong (in short, a born American leader) -- is an archetype of the worst in the national character. Eriksson -- frail-looking but articulate and morally alert -- is the beleaguered best. The remainder of the unit is, of course, the hulking, muddled majority, all too willing to be conned by anyone who seems to be sure of his goals, however perverse. Their victim represents...
...from a draconian assimilation campaign waged against them by the Bulgarian Communist regime to a homeland that is hard-pressed to give them asylum. Refugees tell of five grim years of escalating pressure -- their schools closed, their language outlawed, their music silenced and their names changed for Slavic ones. Worst of all, in their view, Muslim worship was banned, a repression extending literally from the cradle to the grave: circumcision was forbidden, and Turkish burial grounds closed...