Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first night one of the worst things that could befall an island of besieged happened to Bastogne: the Germans captured its complete surgical unit. Bastogne's wounded would have to get along without amputations, without fracture splints, without skilled care...
...told, but there was no doubt of air support's momentous part in blunting the German attack. And there was no doubt in Allied airmen's minds that, given clear days, aviation could be the decisive factor in turning the Germans' offensive into their worst defeat in the west...
...hardly over the worst of this crisis when, along with the stockmarket, the Evening World collapsed, and Bud's job, and his money. So, for a second time, did his daughter. Some of her friends believe that her whole career has been an effort to vindicate her father. Anita Colby seems occasionally to feel so, and says with passionate intensity: "I have always had dignity. No matter how long I live I will always have it. I will keep scandal away. I will not go out with the town playboy...
Provost Marshal Major General Milton A. Reckord, calling the crimes the worst kind of sabotage and disloyalty, revealed that a few of the American offenders were "smalltime Chicago racketeers," but most were just ordinary G.I.s, "who succumbed to the temptation for easy money." They will be court-martialed next month...
Smitty, who learned to fly about the time a lot of World War II pilots were learning to walk, has flown more than 6,200 hours. In 169 landings on carriers he has brought his plane in without even flattening a tire. Worst wear & tear on any of his planes has come from enemy gunfire, which was not accidental...