Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Balkans were neither romantic nor obscure nor confusing. The situation last week was hideous, crystal-clear and simple. The Balkans formed a sharply contoured pattern of forces representing all that was worst in postwar Europe...
...expelled last week for "misrepresenting the situation in Rumania and spreading provocative rumors prejudicial to the cause of unity among the great powers." Markham reluctantly crossed into Greece, retaliated by bitterly telling of concentration camps, political murders, meetings broken up by Red Army troops and Communists. Said he: "The worst that any tyrant ever did in the way of violence . . . is now being matched by the Communist-dominated Government in Bulgaria and Rumania...
...Premier Ferenc Nagy and his fellow Cabinet members had paid their return trip from New York to London in Hungarian currency, it would have cost them 14,250,000,000,000,000 pengös apiece.*In Hungary's abysmal inflation- the worst in modern history-one U.S. dollar last week bought 38 trillion pengös. Bookkeepers used a new word: "Mil-pengö" (one million pengös), because their figures no longer fitted the ledgers...
...Cantor went to Denver to award the city a handsome plaque for the safe-&-sane state of its street traffic, was dined by the mayor at the country club. Out to the club to police the dinner went all the cops in the business district, and Denver suffered its worst traffic tie-up in history...
...recently snapped up many a new issue took two weeks to buy American's stock, and at week's end, underwriters still held half the bond issue, were arranging to cut the price. One trouble was that 'the stock market last week had its worst break in four months...