Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gone, but again, like Lincoln, at the best time, not the worst. There will be others to follow, but his memory will be, in the world security talks, a touchstone to sound principles by. I suspect he will be the most potent of influences, being dead. . . . I echo the closing words of Milton's Samson Agonistes...
...Worst Pest...
...Chinese side, Generalissimo Chiang streamlined the command of his field forces, began to clean up the worst abuses of a chain-gang system of local conscription. Now the Generalissimo works out basic strategy with Wedemeyer, transmits his orders directly to his field commanders. Wedemeyer informs McClure and McClure's network supervises the execution. But in action, Chinese officers are solely responsible. The result is that U.S. officers train and fight alongside Chinese infantrymen and artillerists. The Americans have set up veterinary, signal corps, transport and general staff schools to teach U.S. techniques. These institutions were conceived by General Stilwell...
Shattered Europe's health is not so bad as might have been expected. But the worst may be yet to come. Such was the gist of an UNRRA report last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. In Paris, Major General Warren Draper, chief of the public health branch of the Allied Military Government, said the same...
...Office of Price Administration has constantly let loose more sugar than was allotted to it. Worst bungle: industrial users were required to report their 1941 use in April 1942; then OPA rationed them a percentage of their 1941 use, estimating that they had collectively used about 2,400,000 tons in the base year. Not until some 18 months later did OPA add up the users' reports and discover that they came to a total of nearly 3,000,000 tons...