Word: worst
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...department statement said the area experienced its worst rainstorm in the last 50 years just before the crash. It said two inches of rain in six hours caused a dam to overflow, and the resulting torrent washed out supports for the bridge, which collapsed under the train's weight...
There is something brave and original about piling up most of our worst parental nightmares in one movie and then daring to make a midsummer comedy out of them. It really shouldn't work, but it does. The movie does not linger too long over any moment or mood, and it permits characters to transcend type, offering a more surprising range of response to events. Martin, for example, gets to do distraction as well as obsession, and Robards is allowed sentiment as well as cynicism. Because Ron Howard, who was responsible for Cocoon, has a talent for ensemble hubbub, there...
...worst problem created by the Israeli school shutdown, ironically enough, has been anti-Israeli violence. Without the routine of the schoolroom, many boys and girls have spent the idle months caught up in the intifadeh, | congregating on street corners instead of in classrooms. "My first challenge will be trying to make my students act and behave like students and not like rebels," says Ramadan, a teacher in Hebron, just 20 miles from Jerusalem. To help promote order, the Israeli army has promised to stay clear of school grounds. But few Palestinians trust the military to keep its word; fewer still...
Fate and circumstance combine to limit the death toll in what is nevertheless the tenth worst air crash in U.S. history. -- On the diplomatic front: a senior U.S. foreign service officer is suspected of espionage, and George Bush is accused of giving embassy jobs to wealthy but unqualified supporters. -- The Stealth bomber takes to the skies -- but Congress may shoot it down...
...nation's worst unsolved serial-murder case, a seven-year manhunt has finally produced a suspect: a 38-year-old former law student with a mysterious past...