Word: worsting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...generation: Wendell Willkie. It is not one of the least ironic facts of our "greatest democracy on earth" that in one way or another we have either assassinated, rejected or shamefully repudiated the greatest democratic leaders this country has produced-among them Lincoln, Wilson and Willkie. We believe the worst that history will be able to assay against Willkie is that he lived out of his era. And whose shame is it if the American people had not the discernment and vision and integrity to accept the One World idea until possibly a Third World War has made...
...good citizens of New Jersey are getting ready to deal Mayor Frank ("I Am the Law") Hague of Jersey City the worst blow of his undisputed 27-year career as boss of the state. The weapon: a new state constitution, up for ratification this year. If it is ratified, one of the three most notorious U.S. political machines* may be broken once...
...state court systems-many controlled by Hague. The new constitution would give the governor his own cabinet and more power, would cut the departments to 20 and the court system to six, would replace the bulky 16-man Court of Errors and Appeals with a Supreme Court of seven. Worst of all for Boss Hague: a provision requiring public officials to answer legislative inquiries or lose their jobs...
...great questions dominate Rumania today: 1) What will the Russian policy be? 2) To what extent will Allied influence prevail in the Balkans? On the first question the Rumanians are characteristically pessimistic-at worst, they think their country will become a Soviet Republic; at best, they believe that Moscow wants to install a Communist government, preceded probably by revolution. On the second question the Rumanians live on hope from day to day, waiting for an Allied mission to take its place beside the well-staffed Soviet Embassy...
...Worst damage in France is in the Cherbourg-Calais-Rouen area. Rouen Cathedral is in partial ruin...