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Word: worst (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...editorial lacks illustrations to back up his claim against non-Asian minority groups and displays a misunderstanding of the multi-dimensional activities of Asian American organizations, showing he made no effort to determine whether his presumptions about minority organizations had basis in fact. This is irresponsibile editorializing at its worst. Lewison...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intolerance | 3/18/1989 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--Wholesale prices surged I percent in February, matching the January increase and marking the worst back-to-back news on inflation in nearly eight years, the government said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wholesale Prices Continue Upward Climb | 3/18/1989 | See Source »

...worst thing was when John got hurt," Vukonich says. "I didn't know what was going on. I was trying to call the hospital and everything. On the radio they made it sound like he was crippled for life...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: An Iceman With a Mission | 3/17/1989 | See Source »

Religious enthusiast and son-in-law William Roper (John Malone), with his monkish garb and holier-than-thou epithets is every father's worst nightmare. Only angelic daughter Margaret, played by a convincingly sweet Mary-Dixie Carter, is able to soothe her father's troubled conscience without reproach...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: More Than a History Lecture | 3/17/1989 | See Source »

Clark gained national attention -- including a TIME cover -- by bullying students and faculty into a state of moral grace and academic excellence. His well-publicized symbols of rule were a bullhorn and a baseball bat. His lessons included expelling 300 of the worst troublemakers en masse, chaining the school's doors to bar drug dealers and -- whooping audience delight here -- inveighing colorfully against laziness, incompetence and any politician or community leader who questioned his ways. But underneath all that, as the movie points out, were sweetness and caring: Clark redeeming a crack addict (Jermaine Hopkins), mending a mother-daughter conflict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tough Love | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

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