Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Only-. The Germans knew of the great weight of Allied power gathering in front of them, all along the 460-mile front. But they could not know its full weight as it grew by the hour, despite the best the Germans could do, despite the worst of weather and supply troubles. The Germans sought to throw the weight out of balance. If only they could prevent the gathering of force at the most dangerous spots. If only they could pierce through the wedge north of Aachen that threatened their most vulnerable point-where a narrow thrust had been driven toward...
September was the worst month of the war for Japanese aviation. U.S. flyers destroyed more than 1,300 planes - close to the maximum monthly output credited to Jap factories by the most conservative U.S. authorities...
...Friday we had the last hot food. . . . The hotel basement was jammed with the wounded and the stench was terrible. Sunday was the worst day. By that time shells seemed to be coming from all directions and we were getting rather numb. . . . There were dead lying all about. At first we had managed to bury them. Later we could only cover them with blankets, dashing out between shells to do it. Snipers were so close one of the prisoners we had put into the garden was semaphoring them with his hands...
...terrible time with my Sk3c. It seems be he has been in the Navy for 55 years and insists upon using the only desk in the engine room which is also called the Disbursing Office. He continually slaps me on the back and calls me "Sonny". But what is worst of all, he will not give me the combination to my safe...
...Silo. Several months ago the National Better Business Bureau sent to a large number of suspected sharks the worst sample of lyric writing its staff could concoct...