Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Niggardliness was not the reason. The fact was that Latin America, in spite of abundant fertile land, was one of the worst-fed regions in the world. The chief food surplus was in Argentina, not one of the United Nations. Most Latin American countries produced hardly enough to keep their people alive. According to UNRRA's own calculations, the war-sufferers of Europe would need at least 2,000 calories a day, just to keep alive. But in the Latin American countries where it begged for food many millions of people got far less...
Trouble on the Way. In New York, the rail jam was the worst. Huge drifts stalled trains in the open country. Passengers had to wade through drifts to nearby farmhouses to spend the night. State troopers went along the highway dynamiting 14-ft. drifts, clearing the roads so that emergency auto caravans could get through with feed for livestock and food for isolated villages and farms. Improvised or ancient sledges turned up in the streets...
Whether or not the U.S. press did its best, plenty of others did their worst. At the President's Birthday Ball (which the President did not attend), Cinemactress Veronica Lake prayed: "Godspeed him home, wherever he is." Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley, rushing to the rescue of Henry Wallace, told the Senate that Franklin Roosevelt was "on the verge" of meeting Stalin and Churchill. London correspondents cabled about a mysterious high U.S. visitor; two days later Britain's Official Court Calendar revealed that Harry Hopkins had conferred with King George VI. Hopkins went on from there, talked...
Finally in many a busy freight yard traffic came to a stop while trainmen groped for switches beneath snowdrifts. Then the nation was in serious trouble. Two hundred thousand freight cars were tied up in the East by one of the worst transportation crises on record...
...warmly living body for the instruments to work on. The novel's hero, though over-literary and soaked with self-pity, was a corroded and conscience-torn young man to whom terrible events happened terrifyingly. The movie's hero is a competent, personable actor, rather sorry at worst about his wife's death, and too comfortably able to take care of himself under the grimmest of circumstances...