Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Vietnamese the deadly earnestness of the war. That realization has produced not only the general mobilization but also a closing of nightclubs and black markets, a wholesale housecleaning among province chiefs and corps commanders, and a vigorous attack on corruption, reinforced by public executions of the worst offenders...
...went, they blockaded and sometimes stoned the local printing plants of conservative Publisher Axel Springer, whose newspapers, notably the mass-circulation Bild-Zeitung, have denounced their restive leftist tendencies. The students also broke store windows, erected barricades across streets and fought bitter pitched battles with police. The violence was worst of all in West Berlin, where a mob of 3,000 young revolutionaries broke almost every lower-floor window in Springer's shiny skyscraper near The Wall and set fire to some 20 delivery trucks. Then, crying "Berlin equals Memphis!", the students marched on West Berlin's city...
...handy targets-his wife, even himself. Polar explorers, deprived of quarrels with strangers, often start to hate one another; the antidote is smashing some inanimate object, like crockery. Accident-prone drivers may be victims of "displaced aggression." The once ferocious Ute Indians, now shorn of war outlets, have the worst auto-accident rate on record...
Balloons notwithstanding, three one-act plays do not automatically a festival make. Dunster House, with the first if its two weekends under the banner "one act play festival," walks the fence between festival and funeral, sometimes tottering off onto the wrong side. Worst of all, what promised to be the sure bet of the evening, The Bald Soprano, turns out to be the biggest loser...
...What do you think is the worst way to die?" he asked Elliott C. Small '69, who was just heading for the Quincy House dining room after a Biology 10b class...