Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fearing the worst and genuinely disgusted with Duvalier, the U.S. withdrew its AID mission in August. Washington maintains a small embassy staff in Port-au-Prince and terms its relations with Duvalier "cool but correct...
...enlarge its cramped 28.5-acre campus, Columbia since 1963 has acquired nearly $30 million worth of property on the Heights, including 73 low-rent apartment buildings and houses and nearly 20 cheap "S.R.O." (single-room occupancy) hotels, some littered with prostitutes and dope peddlers. By cleaning up the worst of the rooming houses, Columbia has helped cut down the Heights' horrifying crime rate. Nonetheless, its real estate acquisitions have been attacked at various times by no fewer than 70 neighborhood organizations, many of which accuse the university of a "racist" plot to displace poor Negroes with middle-income whites...
...that have come up in California courts. Under it, an insurance company may be sued for additional damages when emotional distress is suffered by persons whose legitimate claims are sidetracked or turned down for "false or frivolous" reasons. Insurance companies naturally do not like the law, and now their worst fears have been confirmed. Last week a jury in Orange County awarded an outraged policyholder $710,000 in damages. It was by far the largest sum ever handed down under...
...Reward. The worst violence to date occurred last month when two non-union printers were shot in a Los Angeles motel; one died recently. Police have not traced the crime to the unions, but the Examiner had no doubts. In a front-page editorial, the paper put the blame squarely on the strikers. "This cold-blooded murder," said the paper, "heads a long list of crimes and violence since eleven trade unions went on strike." The paper then proceeded to list 150 incidents. "The Herald-Examiner," concluded the editorial, "will not be moved by intimidation." The paper offered...
Toying with time while juggling ribaldry and death, Director Dusan Makavejev made Love Affair the way an action painter attacks a canvas. As a result, there are many happy accidents and not a few disasters. The movie is at its Rabelaisian best when it sticks to salacity, at its worst when it attempts sagacity by commenting on life's meaninglessness. In the West the age of the Theater and the Cinema of the Absurd has rendered such Dada as dead as the dodo. But in countries with a history of repressive censorship, nonsense undoubtedly serves a therapeutic purpose...