Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battalions of mixed North Vietnamese and local Communist Pathet Lao forces were thrown back just outside Thakhek on the border of northeast Thailand-a threat so close to home that Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman warned Hanoi that the Thais might have to take direct action to aid Laos. Worst of all is the situation in southern Laos, where North Vietnamese forces have cut road links, launched mortar attacks and surrounded the provincial towns of Lao Ngam, Saravane and Attopeu...
...Boston newspapers claiming that his dealings were "exploitive and discriminatory." Actually, Gordon's real estate holdings, which were once extensive in slum neighborhoods, now consist mostly of profitable downtown office buildings; only a few of the 100 or so apartments he owns are in the city's worst areas...
...Creation du Monde, on the program. "As the greatest living French composer, Milhaud deserves to be represented in our concert only by his best work," Torkanowsky said in a public statement. "We do not propose to present him at what might be his worst." Furthermore, he said, the new work "would be a disappointment to the audience and to the spirit of the 250th anniversary...
...space of a single night at the mythical Lincoln International Airport, nearly every imaginable man, machine or function goes wrong. One of the worst snowstorms in history has been raging over the airport for three days. The longest and widest runway is blocked by a mired Boeing 707. A traffic controller is suicidally depressed. And a Rome-bound flight lifts off with a man carrying a bomb in his briefcase. How Airport Manager Mel Bakersfeld and a score of other characters cope provides the suspense of this obvious but well-programmed novel. Among the nuggets Hailey might better have left...
Tyson is at work on his latest and worst film-a tale of New York suitably titled Bronek's Cheer-when he suddenly begins getting threatening messages and attempts are made on his life. Suspense survives for a time amid the farce, then separates like fragments from a grenade. What Condon fans will enjoy are his extravagant prose arias, including the account of a typical McCobb breakfast. For rhapsodic and inventive list making* it is unequaled by anything since the Glass family's medicine cabinet in Franny and Zooey...