Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans, meanwhile, have adopted comedy as their tool and social alienation and absurdity as their twin themes. Nearly every important American writer-Nabokov, Mailer Barm, Bellow, Malamud, Donleavy, Roth, Friedman, Burroughs, Heller, Pynchon, Willingham-works from an assumption that society is at best malevolent and stupid, at worst wholly lunatic. The gods are dead and their graves untended, morality is a matter of picking one's way between competing absurdities, and the only sane reaction to society-to its alleged truths and virtues, its would-be terrors and taboos-is a cackle or a scream of possibly cathartic laughter...
...three have died during treatment and two turned out to have had both major coronary arteries blocked. These two were among twelve who were in cardiogenic shock (almost complete circulatory collapse), a condition that carries a forbidding mortality of 80% or more. But all ten others, even in this worst-risk group, survived...
Twin Perils. Few bankers expected another boost so soon. And the Fed's surprise move amounts to a monetary corset for the fattening economy. "We are in the midst of the worst financial crisis since 1931," said Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin. The nation, he maintained, faces "uncontrollable inflation" or an "uncontrollable recession" because of an "intolerable balance of payments deficit side by side with a budget deficit...
...there is the psychic strain that flows from neglecting one's assigned work. The feeling of guilt that plagues one for going to see a movie in mid-week is real--but, perversely, not real enough to force one back to one's books. In short you get the worst of both worlds...
...Harvard golf team had little trouble downing a winless Columbia team, 5 1/2-1 1/2, but finally met its match when it bowed to Penn, 4 1/2-2 1/2, in a tri-meet yesterday in Philadelphia that brought out the best and the worst in the Crimson squad...