Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worst boner dates also from his League days when, involuntarily prophetic, he spoke of a "pact of nonassistance and mutual aggression...
...with ribbons on his chest had come back from Japan to Seattle. He brought smallpox with him. Result: the city's worst epidemic of the "Red Death" in years...
From France, French North Africa and Italy, Investigator Hoover had reported: "Conditions difficult but not intolerable, provided present rations can be maintained." But last week, in Warsaw, he found Poland's food situation "heartbreakingly bad"-the worst he had seen. He found "over 2,600,000 children terribly subnormal from undernourishment... two cities, Cracow and Lodz, have already been without bread for three weeks at a time...
Rain & Reconstruction. In Rome, people walked to the banks of the Tiber-not, as in the past, to watch for blossoms in the orange and lemon trees, but to see whether the river level was rising; for Italy was parched by its worst drought in two centuries. Heavy gusts of spring rain finally swelled the river, and softened the brittle earth to the seed...
...Seattle's worst smallpox epidemic was in 1901-02 ; 642 reported cases, four deaths...