Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Board of Trade reported that Britain's November trade deficit was the worst in history: $530 million. The bad news dropped the minipound last week to the lowest level of its short life- $2.4005- and sparked a fresh round of gold buying on the London market and new speculation against ster ling. It was small satisfaction that the French, who have done their share of speculating against the pound in Brit ain's recent troubles, suddenly found themselves tarred by the same brush: ru mors of a devaluation of the franc plummeted France's coin...
...themselves are neither particularly prudish nor incorruptible, Salazar's puritanical regime, with the help of a highly efficient police organization, has always tried to silence even the faintest whisper of vice in high places. Last week, however, Salazar's regime failed in its efforts to squelch the worst public scandal in its 40 years of rule...
Fluttering north from Saigon in a privately chartered helicopter to inspect a Viet Nam resettlement camp, Illinois G.O.P. Senator Charles Percy, 48, decided on impulse to take a look at Dak Son, the Montagnard village recently destroyed by the Viet Cong in the war's worst atrocity. The Senator and a party of four hopped to the ground in Dak Son, leaving Loraine Percy in the chopper, and were met by a welcoming barrage of mortar and small-arms fire from surrounding V.C.s. "I can assure you I have never gotten closer to the ground," said Percy...
...through four years of doubt and cynicism, he shook his fist at mortality-the defiance sometimes gorgeously expressed, at others trapped by fuzzy rhetoric. In the last entry, Thomas wrapped together the best and the worst that he had seen and felt...
Brown's second goal, also by Bob Devaney, came at 8:57, after referee Ralph Warburton sent Fredo off the ice for cross-checking. Warburton, who did what will hopefully be the worst job of refereeing seen in Watson this year, also assessed Ron Mark with his first penalty minutes of the year in the second period, when Brown's Norwell tripped over his own feet...