Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hold a rally for 15,000 or 20,000 people," says one top aide, "when with TV you can get the whole state?" Evening banquets will go the way of torchlight parades. "All you get at banquets are drunks and fat cats," adds the adviser. "And banquets are the worst possible kind of TV. There is no rhyme or reason for it to be done, so it won't be. At night, Nixon rests." Agnew will be kept mostly out in the boondocks until he is completely sure of himself and until it is clear what attack the Democrats...
...reason is that many angry Negroes spent their steam in the cathartic aftermath of the King murder. Another is that few cities have been hit by more than one major riot in any year-or two years in a row. More deeply, Negroes have discovered that they are the worst hurt victims of ghetto violence. Along with their desire for self-preservation goes a strong drive for self-determination. Instead of incinerating their neighborhoods, many have begun concentrating on building them up. Dr. Hiawatha Harris, head of a psychiatric clinic in Watts, echoes the common belief that "the rioting phase...
...scratch out their precarious, remote existence. One such town was Kakhk, a cluster of blue-plastered, mud-brick buildings where 7,000 Iranians lived. At 2:17 on a sunny Saturday afternoon, Kakhk ceased to exist. In a few swift moments, it became the victim of Iran's worst earthquake since 1962, when 12,000 people perished. "I was taking a stroll in front of my house, when the ground started to tremble and everything became dark," one grief-stricken survivor, Hossein Hedayat, related last week. "The buildings around began falling. I grabbed a tree and hung on. When...
...that tie back on,' and I said, "I'll be damned if I'll put it on.' Well, she called my parents and they came to school to get me. My father took me home and beat the living hell out of me with his belt. That's the worst beating I ever got." It was not the last. And there were plenty of near misses. Denny still remembers nervously the day when he was only twelve and "borrowed" one of the family cars. It ran out of gas, and he pushed it all the way home. He barely...
That was last year. "I've grown up a lot this season," says Denny. For one thing, he has learned to put a muzzle on his mouth or at least to temper his cracks. He still insists that "Tiger Stadium is the worst in the league," but now, instead of simply railing that "Detroit fans are the worst I've ever seen," he is careful to limit his complaint to "some" Detroit fans. Even so, he has been belligerent enough to inspire one of those fans to wire a smoke bomb to the engine of Sharyn's car. The bomb...