Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Left seem almost as much out of balance as those of the Old Left. They have concentrated their attacks for several years on U.S. policy in Viet Nam to the exclusion of criticism of Communist aggressions there and elsewhere, and now that Communist dictatorship has revealed its worst aspects in Czechoslovakia, they cannot manage to criticize that without dragging in the unrelated U.S. policy in Viet...
Furthermore, one of our tenants, Robert Lynch, reports: "These buildings have sustained two very severe hurricanes -one was the worst we have had in years, yet Harbour House never gave a quiver...
...month effort to unsnarl the paperwork jam that has slowed brokers' back-office operations, the exchanges and over-the-counter market last week decided to remain on a four-day trading week throughout September. Beyond all that, the Merrill Lynch case is clearly Wall Street's newest, worst nightmare, if only because it is bound to raise doubts about the habits and methods of brokers everywhere...
Perhaps the worst aspect of CBW is the easy availability of its weapons. While the nuclear club remains relatively exclusive, nuclear arms can continue to provide a built-in deterrent-a balance of terror that restrains nuclear powers from starting a war in which winner and loser alike will figuratively glow in the dark. Members of the CBW club may soon multiply. And their very number could vastly increase the possibility that one of them could be tempted to exercise CBW's awful power...
...rate, the Soviets pounced, and now must try to translate their military takeover of Czechoslovakia into a realization of the political ends that inspired it. It will not be easy. At best, the invasion was too clumsy and too late to rescue a vacillating policy. At worst, it may prove a disaster destroying forever Moscow's claim to leadership in the Communist world. It may temporarily halt the trend toward more freedom in Eastern Europe and shore up Russia's buffer against the outside world for a little longer. But ultimately, the invasion can only serve to encourage...