Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bright Side. In Salt Lake City, the editors of the state prison newspaper had a consoling word for their fellow convicts: "No one is entirely useless. Even the worst of us can serve as horrible examples...
...clash disrupt the scheduled peace talk between Egypt and Israel? Mediator Bunche, as usual, was optimistic. So was his chief of staff, Brigadier General William E. Riley. As the two men took off from La Guardia Field this week for Rhodes, they were ready for the best and the worst. The Jews and the Egyptians, Bunche declared, would "have a hell of a time getting off the island" without reaching an agreement. "We have our fingers crossed," he added with a grin, "and we'd have our toes crossed too, if we could...
France was down with the worst case of flu since the disastrous pandemic that followed World War I, killing an estimated 100,000 Frenchmen. The flu wave last week threatened to invade Britain, where doctors nervously checked up on their drug supplies. It had infiltrated Italy, where Communist propagandists proved that even a sneeze is a weapon in the class war. Cried Red Unita: "A slight cold, easy to catch these days, may have fatal consequences for the underprivileged, who generally lack . . . the money to buy aspirin...
...stay long. The industrial averages rose to 193.16 before the baby bull, scared by the Berlin blockade, the threat of war, and a possible squeeze on profits, languished and died. On the election of President Truman the market fell 10.82 points in a week, the worst break since the spring of 1940. At year's end the averages were at 177.30, down slightly from the year's start, and Wall Streeters were more confused than ever on whether the market was bound up or down...
...Worst off were the civilian refugees "living in tents and huts, with 50 to a room in schoolhouses or basements of public buildings. These half-starved, half-frozen fugitives form one-tenth of the population...