Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worst tragedy involving the missions took place early in the offensive when six American Protestants with the Christian and Missionary Alliance were killed at a compound near Ban Me Thuot in the Central Highlands, where the CMA ran a school and a leprosarium. According to survivors' accounts, the attack began before dawn when North Vietnamese sappers blew up a home in the center of the compound. The two occupants, Leon Griswold, 66, a retired insurance salesman from White Plains, N.Y., who had turned missionary, and his daughter Carolyn, 41, a youth worker, were fatally injured...
...felt rather strongly that this is the worst kind of compromise," Lamberg-Karlovsky said last night. "I don't see that a one-year language exposure rule has any educational value. Even abolishing the requirement completely would have been better than this...
...played the worst basketball of my career," he said. "Last year at least I was consistent. This season I've hit over 20 in some games, and then scored four or six on other nights," he said...
...Worst of all, engineers have concluded that the plane would have a range of only 2,300 miles with 292 passengers, instead of the 4,600 miles that Boeing is contractually obliged to deliver. Allowing Boeing more time to revamp the plane to meet its performance pledge, said Major General Jewell C. Maxwell, SST Development Director of the Federal Aviation Administration, "will hasten the day when we will have a safe, successful and profitable SST in commercial service...
...rescue missions that saved thousands. Bands of Jewish fighters roamed the dense forests of Russia and Poland, though their mortality rate often reached 100%. What makes their resistance more noteworthy, says Miss Levin, is that "wherever and whenever they fought back, they were doomed and they knew it." Worst of all, nobody seemed to care. "The Allies," she says. "had written the Jews off as wartime casualties...