Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when we are on the threshold of true emancipation for the poor and the black, Richard Nixon talks of unity. If you must, Mr. Nixon, give us your worst, but please, spare us from unity...
Before the day was over, 21 men had made it to the frozen surface; but 78 others still remained trapped, some as much as 600 ft. below the ground. As hope diminished for their rescue, the disaster looked to be the worst mining accident in the U.S. since 119 men died in a 1951 explosion in West Frankfort, Ill.* Muffled explosions shook Consol No. 9 for three days, preventing rescue workers from going in after possible survivors. No one could say what set off the first blast, but once the fire was under way, it spread rapidly, feeding on combustible...
...geography." He is distressed because too many academic institutions have become too involved with contemporary problems, too influenced by a misguided zeal for community service. The trouble, Barzun says, can be traced to a "great shift to research after 1945." One inevitable result has been the student riots, the worst of which occurred at Columbia soon after Barzun completed his manuscripts. He is noticeably cool to student rioters, although he sympathizes with some of their protests. So many professors are busy with activities outside the classroom, he says, that they have become guilty of slipshod teaching, poor preparation, dull lectures...
...Boston Strangler--Believe your worst suspicions. At the MUSIC HALL, Tremont St. near Stuart...
Harvard never really dominated the action. Playing scrappy ball, they found themselves physically outmatched by a rough Army squad. Coach Bruce Munro said before the game that Army was "the worst possible team to go against with injuries. It would not be so bad against a skillful team, but Army overpowers...