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Word: worsting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mario Scelba sat impassive, surveying the battlefield with agate eyes. It was the worst brawl the Italian Parliament had seen in a long time. Some believed the Communists had deliberately started the fight. Said Il Popolo: "... A deliberate maneuver to debase the dignity and efficiency of Parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Edgy Nerves | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Africa was really hard-hit, suffering the worst drought in a century. In many parts of South Africa, once high corn and grazing land looked, after the 14-month drought, like scorched earth. At Mombasa, the game warden for the Kenya coast reported some 5,000 elephants stampeding toward the coast in search of water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATURE: The Heat of the Day | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...weathermen) hit Okinawa July 23. For eight hours it lashed the big island, registering a velocity of 135 m.p.h. before the wind gauge blew down. The toll: 38 dead, 252 injured, 42,502 buildings, including 75% of all Air Force installations, destroyed or "50% demolished." It was the worst Okinawa typhoon since Louise in October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKINAWA: Sic Transit Gloria | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Stutterers are at their worst when embarrassed by normally fluent people; they do better with other stutterers, for then they have no sense of inferiority. Because a stutterer who has almost conquered the handicap serves as an encouragement, much speech practice is done in groups. About a third of the hospital's staff are former patients: they, better than anyone else, understand the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Halting Words | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Paper companies, whose expansion had caught up with their worst shortages (e.g., newsprint, kraft paper), also were looking more normal. St. Regis' net was down from $8.7 million to $3.2 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: What's Up? | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

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