Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lingerie on the Hedge. That twister (one of the worst in Holland's history) tore the roof off every house in Borculo on Aug. 10, 1925. The people of Borculo never forgot how their town's church bells turned up in somebody's bedroom, and how a housewife's lingerie, just unpacked, was found draped on hedges and window frames all over town...
...worst came to worst, Bill DeWitt could always sell some ballplayers or a ballpark-or he could pack up the Browns (and their league franchise) and move them to another city. Since ball clubs began to travel by air, sportwriters have talked about the possibility of moving the franchise to the Pacific coast. Many of them feel sure that St. Louis would not support that much baseball, even if the Browns were a first-division club...
...Chicago grain pits, traders had a nervous eye on the calendar. Exactly a year ago, grain prices had tumbled in the worst shakeout in seven years. Last week traders had more than the calendar to make them nervous. The Department of Agriculture announced that it would not put any acreage restrictions on this year's corn crop. With the market already glutted, that seemed to mean another big crop and still lower prices ahead...
...program due to a fortunate oversight on the part of the Arena management, called some 59 minutes of penalties on the two teams. Some of their calls were bistantly wrong, such as the center zone check called on Al Key in the second period, and others were questionable. Worst of all, they let the game get out of control midway in the second period. Either from dullness or myopia, they missed penalties, and the players, thus encouraged in their illegal methods, proceeded to reduce the game to a slugging match...
...featured with "Rogues Regiment" is a Hollywood heartwarmer entitled "Big city." It features the cop on the Beat (George Murphy), a good-hearted gamin (Butch Jenkins), and sundry other people you want to avoid. Worst of all it has Margaret O'Brien. This observer has always felt that M-G-M's Margaret is an ill-tempered, abnormal, sniveling little wretch; the sooner she reaches the awkward age the better...