Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Worst of all, Burdick thought, was what he called "cultural passivity." In England, he found, there was none of "the rise and fall, the massive brooding anxiety, the creative stabbing of self-doubt, the tortures of ethnic inadequacy that one finds to a marked degree in America and Asia . . ." He doubted very much whether England "could today produce a Shakespeare," but thought America or Asia might...
Doctors do not know exactly what causes rheumatic fever, which is one of the worst killers of children, and sometimes leaves even its survivors with badly damaged hearts. But one researcher believes that he has spotted the killer's breeding grounds: poor and broken homes...
...Cambridge, Mass., hapless Harvard took one of the worst beatings in its 75-year football history, a 54-14 drubbing by Army...
...Wall Street, baffled brokers did not know what to make of things. Despite the strikes in steel, coal and aluminum, which had thrown at least 1,000,000 out of work and caused the worst postwar shutdown, the stock market kept right on going up. Last week, in some of the busiest trading of the year, the Dow-Jones industrial average rose 1.59 points to 186.78, a new high for the year...
Shirley wanted no alimony but she wanted full custody of 20-month-old Linda Susan Agar ("The worst thing about all this," she said, "is what it will do to the baby"). To Louella's colleague, Columnist Sheilah Graham, Shirley unburdened a little more: "The trouble with my marriage started two and a half years ago, when Johnny started to drink My suit doesn't mention the drinking,'but it has become unbearable...