Word: worst
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...from Moscow to Paris were besieged by furious Serbs, American allies like Italy and Greece nervously waffled on their support for the bombing, and neighboring states from Albania to Macedonia were convulsed by the prospect of ethnic violence. Inside Yugoslavia, in what may come to be regarded as the worst of the secondary effects of the strike, Serbian troops stepped up their campaign against Kosovo's Albanian citizens, squeezing the province in a pincer movement that stabbed south from Belgrade and north from the Macedonian border. The offensive produced thousands of refugees and inspired terrifying reports of mass killings...
...Stanley Kwan's Red Rose, White Rose she is a figure of eros and pathos, driving her lover quietly nuts with her desperate vitality; the turn won her a Hong Kong Film Critics award. Back in the West, she copped a less prestigious prize--a Razzie nomination for worst actress--when she played an Inuit activist in Steven Seagal's On Deadly Ground. In that and Judge Dredd, she was just fabulous-looking furniture...
...stayed south of the 26th parallel. Nevertheless, morale on the Orbiter 3 started to flag soon after, as Piccard and Jones flew over the endless expanse of the Pacific Ocean. Progress toward Hawaii was slow, and they lost contact with mission control for four days. "I realized that the worst desert wasn't made of sand but of water," Piccard said when communications were re-established. Then the balloon popped out of its jet stream over Mexico and drifted in the wrong direction. They were using up precious fuel without making much headway. Even worse, a heater faltered, and temperatures...
...tanker Exxon Valdez runs aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound, spilling 11 million gal. of crude oil. It is the worst oil spill in U.S. history...
...fate would have it, I found out last March that I had been randomized into Pforzheimer House. Devastated and dejected, I prepared myself for the worst. Now, one year later, I can't imagine living anywhere else...