Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acres of ground called Ebbets Field. Undoubtedly, certain sport-minded residents are interested in what goes on there. But there is a widespread impression that not only Flatbush but all of Brooklyn is merely an extension of that ball park. TIME is one of the worst offenders in disseminating that humiliating propaganda...
...blow came during the worst spell of winter within the memory of most Britons. Drifting snow had cut many important rail lines; many roads were blocked. Machinery at some mines was frozen over. The gap between Britain's long-dwindling coal production and consumption had thinned to the point of immediate disaster to Britain's export program and threat to her entire economy...
Shinwell had put the Government on a hot spot. But since the Labor Party had a clear majority and there was no split in its ranks, the Government probably would not fall. Nevertheless Clement Attlee's regime was in the worst crisis of its 18 months in power and the nation had had its worst jolt since the buzz-bombs began to fall...
...Wehrmacht's bars and the high value which Germans today put on their clothing cost 84 lives. Forty-four more were hospitalized, 20 were missing. It was Berlin's worst peacetime fire disaster in 100 years...
...deal was further dampened by a fact which neither Woodhead nor Gross would dare to admit publicly: that they and all other big aircraft manufacturers are facing one of the industry's worst financial storms. One big cause is the shuffle of military budgets, which will cut deeply into the planemakers' surest and richest market. A bigger one is that the planemakers are unalterably entangled with plane operators, whose troubles are headline topics...