Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stalinists. . . . They are always willing to join with the Stalinists in attacking the evils of Western democracy, they refuse to associate themselves with liberal criticism of dictatorial political practices in Russia. In effect, they believe that capitalist democracy at its best is less desirable than Russian totalitarianism at its worst...
Thus Virginia Woolf, in Orlando, described Britain's legendary Great Frost in the reign of King James I. Last week, no birds froze in flight, no peasant girls were pulverized. But Britain and the Continent were gripped by their worst cold wave in decades. Before it finally eased off somewhat this week, it had seriously added to Europe's manifold miseries. Icy blasts from a high pressure area over Scandinavia struck through crumbling walls and patched clothes. Ice creaked in Venice's lagoons, and gondolas carried snowy canopies. Sicilian roads were blocked by snow. In Stockholm...
...Warsaw Correspondent Ingersoll took a flying trip around the city as the Poles voted, then cabled PM: "This is to say that the picture of wholly fraudulent, rigged elections given Americans before the fact is at best a misrepresentation of a complicated political situation and at worst malicious repetition of malicious untruths...
...ordained in the Church of Scotland† in 1924 and was soon assigned to starchy St. Cuthbert's Parish Church in Edinburgh. Uncomfortable in such ultra-respectable Christianity, he switched to Glasgow's famed Govan Old Parish Church, in the heart of one of the worst slums. But the church's Christian witness seemed to him no more effective among the poor than among the plushy; after eight years he resigned his pulpit and went to Iona...
...hands on a greater potential monopoly than any other railroader. He got his hands on it when he bought control of Alleghany Corp. in 1937. This fantastic financial Humpty Dumpty, put together by Cleveland's famed Van Sweringen brothers, O.P. and M.J., was one of the worst examples of giddy railroad financing of the '20s. After it crashed in 1932, no one thought it could ever be put together again...