Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Bernard Shaw, as usual, was something else again. His reply to an appeal for aid for an evangelists' training school was no. His explanation: "Jesus gave the worst possible advice to the young man who had great possessions,* and St. Peter struck a man and his wife dead for a petty anti-communist delinquency,† I cannot endorse such crudities...
...great stillness fell over the eastern Colorado plains. After that a freezing wind rose, banged barn doors and snatched at the smoke from lonely ranch houses. It grew dark, and salt-like snow began hissing across leagues of sere buffalo grass. Then, for 48 hours, a blizzard-the worst in 33 years-moaned down out of Wyoming with nothing to stop it but fence posts and cottonwood trees...
...just the old-fashioned college spirit, with G.I. high jinks thrown in? Whatever it was, the nation's college campuses, orderly and disciplined during the war, were popping with mischief that sometimes bordered on vandalism. The Ivy League seemed to harbor the worst offenders...
Brahms: Second Sonata in E Flat for Clarinet and Piano (Benny Goodman and Nadia Reisenberg; Columbia, 6 sides). Brahms at his banal worst; Goodman at his technical best...
...stockmarket, confident of Republican victory, had gone up over 10 points (Dow-Jones industrial averages) in the four days before election. But when victory came, the market fell, the worst drop in two months. Commodity prices fell also. Probable reasons: short-term speculators read G.O.P. talk of a big U.S. budget cut as a deflationary measure, grabbed their profits. They ignored talk of the corollary tax cut, which, by putting more cash in the hands of consumers, would help business all around...