Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worst hardship was worrying about his seven children. One daughter died last fall; a son was killed in battle on Feb. 28; two other sons were reported missing...
...Stage II, the visceral feeling was quite different. With its emotions benumbed, the democratic world no longer expected anything but the worst. On June 22, 1941, when Hitler invaded Russia, most of the world took it for granted that Russia would crumble within a short time. But the worst never quite happened. The Russians were beaten and beaten and beaten-for 15 months. But the Germans could not crush them...
There were 2,180 sick in the camp hospital alone when the hospital unit arrived. The first evening they got 161 more, from the barracks and the so-called "Small Camp"-the worst section of Buchenwald, where the dying were sent when they were considered beyond human care. Most of these patients were suffering from diarrhea, caused simply by lack of food. In the Small Camp men were still dying by the hundreds...
...whimsically, to lose each other so casually in the subway, to find each other if they did, or to run into quite so picturesque a combination of gruffly kind metropolitan types. The trouble is more detailed than that. The pretty-enough "background music" (one of Hollywood's worst habits) reduces some of the storytelling from the sadly tender grandeur which the players and the monumental closeups earn to a sort of oversweetened, high-grade M. G. Mush...
...Managers. In the first week's scramble the managers took the worst beating. Cleveland's Lou Boudreau opened on a low note by getting picked off third base with the ancient hidden-ball trick. Joe Cronin of the Red Sox broke his ankle sliding into second. Leo Durocher of Brooklyn, who had loudly threatened to play second base for the first 15 games, gave up with sore shins after a game and a half (he was still juggling his batting order right & left-five times in five days...