Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...person--in order to move freely. While this definition is certainly vague and does not account for all conceivable forms of Dow protest, the Deans are to be congratulated for clarifying which forms of demonstrations are in violation of University regulations. The absence of such rules was among the worst aspects of the Dow and McNamara incidents...
...CRIMSON extends its sympathies to the family and friends of the Harvard basketball team which died Saturday night in New York. The Crimson five received one of the worst shellackings in Ivy League history, crumbling before seventh-ranked Columbia...
...mean more and more and more." His forecast proved flawless. From 773 advisers at the start of the decade, the U.S. force grew to more than 16,000 under Kennedy and half a million under Lyndon Johnson today. The war that they are fighting, cries Galbraith, is "perhaps the worst miscalculation in our history," and he sees the Viet Cong's bloody rampage through the cities of South Viet Nam as complete vindication of his position. "We were winning," he argues, "only in the speeches of our generals and ambassadors...
...mitigation so much as a kind of license of mis behavior, and we were free from the countervailing influences of movies, television, and John O'Hara." After a not particularly brilliant high school career, Galbraith entered Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, "not only the cheapest but probably the worst college in the English-speaking world." Starting off in animal husbandry, he wrote his Bachelor's thesis in economics, reasoning that "if the Depression continued, there would be a great demand for people...
Lapp took strong issue with the Pentagon's Dr. Finn Larsen, who last month insisted that the population below would scarcely notice the explosions of Spartan and Sprint warheads, and that at worst humans might suffer temporary blindness if they were looking directly at the flash. Exploded 100 miles above New Brunswick, N.J., Lapp said, a one-megaton weapon would create a spectacular, incandescent fire-pancake 50 miles up so large that it would overlap both New York and Philadelphia...