Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never would be a serene and beautiful woman watching children at play. Peace at best was a squinting sentinel or a farmer building a fence or a man walking the hills with an urgent message which might quell or check or soften hatred. Peace at its worst was the smug illusion of safety-or else it was a panic flight, more terrible than war, away from...
...best patients, concluded Drs. O'Hollaren and Lemere, were those who were happily married, successful, intelligent, emotionally stable, financially secure, interested in sobriety clubs (like Alcoholics Anonymous). The worst risks were patients who were heavy drinkers before they were 30, were highly nervous even when sober, had had delirium tremens, were restless in their jobs and careless about money...
...Henry Higgins" behind the ad was actually Jack Grogan of Manhattan's enterprising WNEW, who is about to launch an educational program called "How to Speak Better English." As each girl talked to Grogan she received a sort of preliminary test. This week, the 15 worst (including one who said she suffered from "deplorably deficient fluency" and another who complained that "everything I say comes out horizontal") will compete at a final studio audition...
...George Humphrey, an up & coming lawyer in Saginaw, Mich., caught the eye of Dick Grant, Hanna's general counsel, and joined the company. In 1929, young Humphrey moved into the presidency. Under him, Hanna made money even during the worst years of the depression. Humphrey says: "We only do the obvious." But he has the knack of making money out of the obvious...
...create the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in 1933, after the worst bank panic the U.S. ever had, the Government put up $289 million. Since then FDIC has become rich from the annual dues (one-twelfth of 1% of total deposits) of its 13,582 members, and piled up a reserve of more than $1 billion. A year ago, FDIC started paying off the Government loan in installments...