Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...organization and administration. The deplorable friction existing between the East and the West in Germany, Austria, Greece, Poland, and numerous other areas could be greatly reduced if we were sure Russia did not intend to use these territories as spring boards to further expansion. And if we learned the worst, that Russia does not intend to rest until she had swallowed the world or a substantial portion thereof, we could begin our preparations now and perhaps convince Comrade Stalin that the price of trying to ride roughshod over the Western democracies would not be worth the uncertain profits he might...
...effort to see that they are granted. We can then watch Russia's actions. If she exhibits a spirit of goodwill and co-operation, well and good. We can look forward to a fear free future. If, however, Moscow continues to agitate, obstruct, and demand we can expect the worst, knowing, at least, that we shall not be caught unprepared...
...week's end, after the worst political buffeting of his presidential life, Harry Truman turned up unannounced in Washington's First Baptist Church. The sermon topic: "The Silver Lining...
Drowned Hopes. Ireland barely escaped famine. Britain's crops, if not her worst, were the most difficult to harvest within living memory. Prayers for sunshine went unanswered. England's' wheat was a rain-beaten tangle. Under the headline "The Afflictions of Thy People," a London Daily Express bulletin read like a litany of the counties, intoned over drowned hopes: "Norfolk: . . . Corn in stook too wet to be carted. Hopes run low. Devon: Crops ruined; corn sprouting. Somerset: Corn lands waterlogged. . . . Hertfordshire: Fields are as squelching as in winter. . . . Surrey: Position serious. Crops deteriorating daily. . . . Suffolk: No work...
Prentice-Hall have good reason to be half out of their minds. As a novel, The Miracle of the Bells is one of the worst ever published; as a business proposition it has cornered the schmaltz market and provides a role for every star in Hollywood...