Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been overly preoccupied with the question as to when, whether and how we can get to a negotiating table. All of this discussion tends to persuade the enemy that our position is weaker than it is and creates suspicions as to our motives, as he feels he received the worst of the bargain struck in Geneva...
...flesh-rending Rock Swallows and an anthropophagous eagle whose calcified remains the whites named Shiprock. Yet there is no Navajo name for the meteorological monster that in ten days left the tribe -and much of the Southwest-buried beneath a man-and-cattle-killing, 7-ft.-deep snowfall, the worst in the region's history...
...special needs of the neighborhoods they serve. One obvious way to ease both problems is to break up big systems into smaller ones - and, indeed, almost every major U.S. city is now considering some form of decentralization. Not surprisingly, New York, which has both the biggest system and the worst problems, is debating the most drastic remedy: a plan to create up to 60 semiautonomous neighborhood school districts...
...that first twelve months, 23.8 out of every 1,000 U.S. babies die, compared with 12.6 in Sweden, 14.7 in The Netherlands. Among other nations ranking ahead of the U.S.: Denmark with 17 deaths per 1,000, Switzerland with 17.2, Japan with 18.3, and France with 21.7. Among the worst: Guatemala with...
...what had to be the worst 60 min utes of his lustrous career, Unitas spent most of the afternoon running for his life from one of the fiercest defenses in pro football. Seven times the Ram defenders dropped him for losses; twice he was intercepted. At the gun, the high-scoring (28 points per game) Colts had 10 points v. 34 for the Rams, who thereby sewed up the N.F.L.'s Coastal Division championship and earned the right to play the Green Bay Packers for the Western Conference title...