Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are two possible explanations for these new concessions to German revival. At best, they represent votes of confidence designed to strengthen the German democratic government; at worst, bids for another ally in the Cold War over French protests of distrust...
...week ago, 20,000 loyal alumni choked with rage as they saw the Harvard varsity football team decisively beaten by a mediocre Yale eleven. It was merely the last chapter in the history of Harvard's worst season, a season in which the Crimson compiled a record of eight losses and one win. The alumni, drawing upon their years of grandstand quarterbacking and television football, decided something was definitely wrong and further decided it was the coach...
...sidewalk at the same corner. A few hours later, another car was damaged as it remained stationary at the corner. These accidents represent but three in a long series of traffic mishaps at the confluence of these, streets, an intersection which a police official has termed "one of the worst in Cambridge...
...methodically bullied and insulted the coal mine operators into hard and adamant opposition to his demands for higher pay and a bigger slice of royalties for his U.M.W. welfare fund. The fund itself had dwindled until it was necessary to cut off all but emergency benefits-at the worst possible time. He had alienated the public and angered most officials in Washington. And the Supreme Court, in an ironically timely decision, had reaffirmed the $1,420,000 fine imposed on him and his union last year...
...Yankee Stadium; then the dam burst and Carolina was swamped, 42-6. Already headed for the Rose Bowl, California took a deep breath and breezed by Oregon, 41-14. Oklahoma's split-T formation crackled and snapped to send a strong Missouri team down, 27-7, for its worst defeat of the year. The only one of the four that got a good scare was Army. In Philadelphia's Franklin Field, desperate Pennsylvania switched to a two-platoon system for the first time and made 23 first downs to Army's ten. But Army, an old hand...