Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pelican about right except for the second line, where the worst limp is. That line should read...
...only the eyes crackled; he vibrated with a strange intensity. Once, shortly after his arrival in 1941, a luncheon crowd demanded a speech. Winant rose with a glazed look, and for four straight minutes of silent agony, stood shifting from one leg to the other. Then he whispered: "The worst mistake I ever made was in getting up in the first place...
...Wake it was worst of all. There the Japanese had dug up the bodies of 42 U.S. servicemen and civilians, buried together in a common grave before the island fell. The bodies have disappeared. In another mass grave, where 98 civilian prisoners were hastily buried after their execution in October 1943, identification has been impossible...
Wisconsin had the fever worst of all. Thousands of small-towners crowded into Madison, to find themselves out of luck for hotel rooms or basketball tickets; 32 players had to sleep in the city jail. Aggressive little Reedsville High (44 boys) upset Eau Claire in the final, and every one of Wisconsin's 260 little high schools cheered the victory...
...much about future operations that they privately muttered: if the British loan is not granted, they will probably quit Bretton Woods. Summed up the Manchester Guardian: "The meeting was intensely discouraging. . . . Every proposal put forward by the American delegation was pressed through with steamroller tactics. . . . In fact, the worst fears of those who have always warned us that this is what the U.S. meant by international economic cooperation were borne out at Savannah...