Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Matter of Expediency. The official position of the Davisites is that Russian aggression and U.S. counter-aggression (both of which are called "imperialism") are equally blameworthy and dangerous to Europe. In private, however, Davis does not share this view. When I asked if he really thought that the worst the U.S. could do to Europe was comparable to the worst Russia could do, he answered: "Of course not." When I asked why this was not said publicly, one of his advisers quickly said it was "a matter of expediency." That is, if Davis publicly criticized Russia more than...
...monarchist," stormed the prosecutor, "but your pamphlets might well have been signed by the worst enemies of monarchy-the Communists...
...after that, legions of wandering newsmen made the Golden Gate a port of call. Some big names were among them. Rudyard Kipling, says Author Bruce, was "a bad reporter . . . snagging on his careless pen events and scenes that were never there." White-coated Horace Greeley found the climate the "worst on earth." Nevertheless, he went back to New York and urged young men to go west...
...Denver Rotary Club. First he jabbed "those who would have us believe that two or three atomic bombs would render the United States uninhabitable." Then he hit "the campaign to make us believe this is 'just another bomb' . . . Deliberately setting out to downgrade the bomb is the worst." Then he flailed away towards the east: "Frankly I am getting damn well tired of those people in Washington and the opinion factories of New York who are forever trying to tell the American people how they should feel, what emotions they ought to have...
...matter what the explanation, the 1948 epidemic would go down in the official statistics as one of the worst in history. Through Dec. 11, the U.S. Public Health Service had received reports of 27,032 cases, close to the alltime record of 27,363 cases (from a smaller population) for the full year 1916. But was it really as bad as it looked? The experts were not sure. Diagnosis and reporting of polio are better than they used to be: years ago doctors recognized only cases that resulted in paralysis; now they can often spot the milder cases that used...