Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worst was definitely over. The nation, worried for months by strike talk, crippled for weeks by strike realities, could settle down to business-at least until further developments on a threatened telephone walkout and the possibility that John L. Lewis might call a coal strike when his contract expires, April...
With the guarded peiorism that farmers live by, the Southwest was inclined to scoff. True, there was a blow last fortnight that sent yellow dust billowing from Kansas to Texas. But it was no black blizzard of '36. True, the land was parched from the worst drought in ten years. It was too loose, drifting now and ready to fly in the shrill March winds...
...this was necessary, said President Truman, if the U.S. was to keep its pledges to Europe and the rest of the world. Otherwise the world food crisis might turn into the worst famine of modern times-"More people face starvation and even actual death for want of food today than in any war year and perhaps more than in all the war years combined...
...family that had bought and remodeled it, and a country family that, by the terms of the sale, could always move back in, and did. The two clans squabble over everything from politics to plumbing, from who-owns-what to who-sleeps-where. The city slickers always get the worst of it: their living room is commandeered for funerals and littered with pigs; they freeze and starve while the country folks go warm and well-fed; they imagine that the yokels' attractive son has eloped with their daughter. Eventually, of course, peace is established, and one family moves into...
...space itself, the spaceships (if ever constructed) may meet their worst perils. The region outside the atmosphere is not mere emptiness. It is chockfull, among other things, of searing X rays from the sun, electron-streams hot out of sunspots, powerful cosmic rays from the depths of space. These are checked by the atmosphere before they smack the earth's surface. Their possible effect on the crew of a comparatively thin-skinned spaceship is something to dampen the enthusiasm even of astronauts...