Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most Japanese towns boast a copy of Tokyo's Nihonbashi. Many streets are pleasantly named for flowers, trees and beasts. Exceptions: Anjin-cho (pilot street), named for Will Adams, first Englishman to visit Japan; the Ginza ("mint for silver coins"), Tokyo's main street, combining the worst features of Broadway, Sixth Avenue and the Atlantic City boardwalk. Signs in Roman characters along the Ginza were often just a little wrong: "Milk Snop"; "Barber Shot"; "Traunks & Bugs...
Take Teddy White, for example. As dean of the Chungking correspondents, he was bombed from house to house and shelter to shelter all through the worst of the Jap air raids (during one horrible bombing the body of a Chinese woman was blown 20 yards straight through his open window). This week, when he landed with our first airborne troops on the sacred soil of Dai Nippon, he must have been comparing the rubble of Tokyo with the ruins he had seen so often in Chungking and Liuchow and Nanning...
...nearly so bad as last year's 7,792, at the same date, but many U.S. areas, hard hit, were justly alarmed. A willing press spread the alarm even to areas having small cause for worry (e.g., Rhode Island, which has had no new cases recently). The worst spots...
...Dictator, had tried everything: the trappings and struttings of Fascism, anti-U.S. nationalism, an anti-Communist witch hunt. He had promised the moon to the Argentine working man, the same moon to Argentine industrialists. He had made gestures toward U.S. democracy, and had hinted at lining up (if worst came to worst) with the U.S.S.R. By last week's end, the returns were pouring in and they were not pleasant reading for Colonel Peron...
...giving the inner voice (and numerous subsidiary mental voices) unusual expressiveness, Arch Oboler has, at best, achieved cinema's first really effective use of internal monologue. At worst, he goes so far with the trick of building intensity through reiteration that it recalls Fred Allen's parody of Norman Corwin: a poetic drama about Jack & Jill in which a cheering section of inner voices, in accelerating crescendo, badger the heroine with "Jill Jacobowsky, Jill-Jacobowsky Jill-Jacobowsky JILL-JACOBOWSKY...