Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Order of the Day to his troops last week, General Eisenhower had found cause for hope that the enemy's big gamble might be turned into Germany's "worst defeat." But the wartime habits of U.S. civilians seemed destined to follow the philosophy of WPBoss Julius A. ("Cap") Krug: the U.S. must assume that we will still be fighting Germany...
...this week the ability of the Americans to come back from the first heavy damage, to overcome the worst of the blow, perhaps to set up the enemy for a smashing defeat, appeared to be a matter of time and clear skies...
...political pundits began to reappraise the career of this small, plumpish woman who, in her unfashionable tricorn hat, has long bustled in & out of Administration councils. Most surprising opinion came from the Baltimore Sun's bitterly anti-New Deal Columnist Frank Kent. He wrote: "Far from being the worst Secretary of Labor we have had, good argument can be made that Miss Perkins is the best...
...with the ultimate U.S. victory. But during the past two years, a soberer-than-average Congress had: 1) asserted its independence of the Chief Executive; 2) financed the war with whopping appropriations; 3) made a fitful start on reconversion plans. More specifically, the 78th, neither the best nor the worst Congress in U.S. history...
...grim bit of humor. In November V-bombs had killed 716 civilians, had injured 1,511. Londoners did not have to compare November's toll with October's (172 killed, 416 injured) to realize that V-2 was now a threat to bring back the worst days of last summer,* before a defense had been found against...