Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was the worst day. The best day was May 3. Then the Big Four announced the amendments they had agreed upon. These 22 amendments contained, the seedlings of San Francisco's main improvements over Dumbarton Oaks (see above). Looking back, it was apparent that on May 3 the conference turned the corner...
Cold France. In France, which normally imported two-fifths of its coal, the shortage is Europe's worst. During the occupation, the Nazis kept the French output at a peak of 42,000,000 tons a year by wooing the miners with double food rations. The French Government tried the same stunt but failed to deliver the food. Result: absenteeism in the mines soared...
Cheer Up! In Port Chester, N.Y., the Item prepared [its] readers for the worst with [these] front-page headlines: HEAT...
Never in any sense a czar, he was at best what George Eastman called the "cat's whiskers" of the industry, at frequent worst a whipping boy whose weapons for achieving order in the chaotic young industry were persuasion and patience...
...Beginning. Another kind of Polish issue began to brew last week. One of the worst of the London Poles' many mistakes was their claim to Teschen, which Poland took from Czechoslovakia in 1938, when the Czechs were in Hitler's grasp. The Lublin Poles originally took the opposite line, expressed a willingness to see Teschen go back to Czechoslovakia. But last week the Polish Communist press started an anti-Czech campaign for Teschen...