Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...away by an angry mob. Reinforcements appeared: Loye Miller and Dean Fischer came from TIME'S Chicago bureau and Wally Terry from Washington. Said Terry, who was recently in Viet Nam: "I felt in more danger in Detroit than I ever was over there." Adds Miller: "Maybe the worst hazards facing newsmen were not so much Negro threats or sniper bullets but the panicky reactions of National Guardsmen and police...
Less than 48 hours later, as Navy Phantom and Skyhawk jets lined up for morning bombing missions against the North, the Forrestal's fire bells sounded again, and the pilot's worst fears were realized. A fuel tank fell from the wing of an A-4 Skyhawk and ruptured, spilling gas onto a sizzling steam catapult. Fanned by 35-mile-an-hour gusts, fireballs leaped to other fully loaded planes, trapping the pilots inside. As bombs and rockets exploded on the 1,000-ft.-long flight deck, the flames spread to the hangar deck far below. Engulfed...
...means all West Pointers. "I wonder if we will ever be as good as the Koreans," Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Cao Van Vien recently said to a friend. Of the ARVN's notori ously bad 25th division in the Delta, Vien says: "It is the worst division in the army-and perhaps in any army...
...worst thing an audience can do is go to a concert with a closed ear. Unfortunately this is what a lot of self-styled "music lovers" seem to be doing; fortunately, under the guidance of brilliant musical minds like Leon Kirchner, music continues to be daring, provoking, and inspiring--as mehitabel would say--in spite of hell...
...terrified face of a nurse saying, Their bodies are just falling apart. A young couple carrying their son, who has been blinded by the glare. A "firestorm"--blasts of wind so fierce that they crush the firemen and their equipment. Watkins says that nuclear war is unthinkable, beyond the worst nightmares of madmen and fools--and an all-too-possible extension of current problems...