Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drawing on Harvard faculty and students, is now preparing a series of position papers for White. The strategy for the rest of the campaign will be to bombard the electorate with these position almost daily, and thus draw attention away from Mrs. Hicks' unremitting racism which brings out the worst in Boston...
...intolerable. A double soda will, at the drop of a hat, make George the life and soul of the party, but it is not making him the life and soul of the Labor Party." The paper praised Brown for unquestioned intelligence, but said that "it is George at his worst who sends shivers down our backs, the George who makes an ass of himself at diplomatic soirees and powwows. Too much wow and not enough pow. Mr. George Brown can no longer hope to be accepted and acclaimed as an intelligent Foreign Secretary if he does not display greater reticence...
...Radio morning show.) During a contract dispute with Frank Sinatra some years ago, Sullivan took a full-page ad in Variety to lambaste the singer for "false and reckless charges"; Frankie countered with his own ad calling Sullivan "sick, sick, sick." Such is his relative benignity that the worst he can say for his old competitor Jack Paar is that he is a "thoroughly no-good son of a bitch. That's spelled...
...Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service was faced with calls to mediate 207 strikes affecting 261,000 workers in 32 states. Labor's continuing militancy (TIME, Sept. 22) is more than matched by hard-nosed managements, and the number of "major" strikes occurring as a result makes this the worst year for labor-management relations since...
...half a century, salmon fishing has been Alaska's biggest industry -and when the summer catch falls off, the whole state suffers. This year, the $50 million salmon harvest is the worst since 1899, and the result has been woe ful. With the catch of sockeye reds and humpback pinks running 71% below last year, the state is planning $400,000 in welfare payments for the Indians, Es kimos and Aleuts who do most of the fishing. The Federal Government is con- tributing surplus foods, and free am munition is being doled out so that they can hunt...