Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the Yangtze's rise stopped-temporarily at least-but the floods already ranked as the worst in decades...
...Santiago's trim blue-green tramcars kept their distance last week, averted their faces when a fellow rider coughed. Movies played to half-empty houses night after night. As the year's first snowfall melted on Santiago's streets, Chileans shivered in one of the worst grippe epidemics in their country's history...
...engaged to defend a 19-year-old Communist named Angelo Herndon, who had been arrested for leading an unemployment demonstration. "This case," said Davis, "was the turning point of my whole life. In the course of trying it, I was made the victim with my client of the worst kind of treatment against Negroes. The judge referred to me and my client as 'nigger' and 'darky'* and threatened many times to jail...
...scenes, when they try for a truly Slavic intensity, they seem to be acting out a burlesque on the whole school of Russian novelists. A few supporting players, including Ethel Barrymore, Agnes Moorehead and Frank Morgan, occasionally suggest what the film might have been-but only occasionally. At their worst, even the veterans lapse into the caricature of the fancy-dress ball...
...record so far, Congress seemed sadly lacking in both courage and decision. Heading into the last week of the fiscal year, Washington was facing its worst appropriations logjam in years. Of the eleven major money bills which will keep the Federal Government running after June 30, only one had yet passed Harry Truman's desk. It was Congress' own outsize budget for the next fiscal year...