Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doing on its food commitments abroad? This week UNRRA's Fiorello LaGuardia, who does not believe in nonsense, told the unvarnished facts. The record added up to the worst failure...
...shone so brightly on the lake, the pines and oaks stood so peacefully in the quiet parkland of Vught, it was hard to believe that during the war this was one of the worst of the German concentration camps...
First out of the inferno was squealing, kicking Beaugay, the fleetest two-year-old filly of the 1945 season. Somebody held her fast. Stable boys led out other terrified thoroughbreds; agonized screams came from horses still in the blaze. In 20 minutes, the worst fire in horse-racing history was over. The toll: 23 horses valued at about $400,000. Only six were saved...
...Monday morning at ten o'clock, said Vag, and I'm quite sure that I have been coming here every Monday morning at ten o'clock since the term began. A dark cloud blotted out the sun, and a cold sweat broke out on Vag's face. The very worst occurred to him immediately. Had the great revival begun; at this very moment was everyone else sleeping off the after effects of the new era's launching! Had he missed the first inning of the renascence! The Vagabond shuddered, turned his collar up, and with bowed head, slowly shuffled...
...conduct of the average soldier ... was at the least noisy and boisterous. At the worst it was criminal. The average was odious and disgusting...