Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shopkeepers," he was maligning (and at the same time acknowledging the importance of) Britain's middle class, backbone of the nation's social structure since it emerged from feudalism. Nowadays in warbled Britain all classes are having a tough time, but the middle class is having the worst time of all. The moneyed aristocrats (formerly known as the "ruling class") have to dip into their capital, but they are still vastly better off than anybody else. The working classes have had wage raises to meet the cost of living, and are otherwise taken care of by a solicitous...
...Good Neighbor Mexico was hopping mad, and the U.S. was caught with its hand in the jam jar. The list of U.S. and Mexican labor, immigration, health and customs laws that had been fractured would be as long as a rebozo (traditional shawl of Mexico's Indian women). Worst of all, from the Mexican point of view, responsible U.S. officials had outrageously violated the signed agreement of Feb. 21, 1948, designed to control the flow of seasonal labor and protect Mexican workers from exploitation and prejudice in the U.S. (The February agreements barred bracero labor in Texas because...
...situation was a natural for someone with Progressive leanings, for the tenth distrct embraces some of the worst slums in the world (as well as the Beacon Hill and Brookline areas) and Herter's voting record has been conservative on such issues as housing and price controls. O'Brien has made no bones about tearing into his record...
...hungered for an automobile and couldn't get one, Robert L. Knetzer was the man to see. At the famine's wartime worst and later, when the new models appeared, townsfolk of Edwardsville, Il11. (pop. 8,100) noticed that strapping Bob Knetzer was a miracle man at finding cars for people with cash. What's more, he sold them at list price, and delivered them in 30 to 90 days. All he demanded was a deposit of at least $1,000. Cadillacs and Chevrolets were his specialties...
...since the worst years of the Japanese war had China faced a prospect so bitter. The Communist autumn offensive had overwhelmed the Nationalists in Manchuria; the vital North China corridor was under heavy attack. For the second time in a generation, a great Nationalist retreat was under way. Isolated outposts would now be evacuated and lines shortened to save men and materiel for a long war of attrition...