Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dark days of 1942, when Prime Minister Churchill broke the news to Premier Stalin that there would be no second front that year, it looked as though the worst had happened. With beleaguered Briton and resentful Russian glaring at each other, the war might be lost. The man who had the two allies warmly toasting each other's health before they parted was His Majesty's Ambassador to Moscow: an emollient, easygoing Scot named Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr. Last week Clark Kerr (pronounced clark karr) was set for more peacemaking in Britain's current...
Clark Kerr is finicky in his tastes. He reads and paints for relaxation, but scorns bridge as "the world's worst way of wasting time." His vast collection of pipes has been assembled all over the world, will almost certainly follow him to Java. He takes his Scotch with water, prefers old-fashioned goose quills to fountain pens. He can still play the bagpipes - with discretion...
Once afoul of British ration laws for trying to get a fur coat from the U.S., she thought she might bag one this trip, "if I have any gentlemen friends." Newsreel men handed her a canned speech to read. "That's the worst speech I ever heard," said she. Cameramen took closeups. "We never did this to Mrs. Roosevelt," the Viscountess protested. "No other country in the world behaves like America!" At interview's end she moved off, cried loudly as she departed, laughing: "Goodbye, you horrors-you horrors...
...deadlock is broken, the worst of the U.S. sugar shortage may end this year. If it is not, the housewife will find her sugar bowl empty...
Died. Dr. Thomas Barbour, 61, 6-ft.-6 snake-loving, pre-eminent naturalist and author (A Naturalist at Large, That Vanishing Eden), director since 1927 of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Boston. One of the worst of his many bad moments with reptiles in many lands: his giant boa went AWOL in a Palm Beach-bound train...