Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day in Spokane he swung his roundhouse punches harder. A reporter from Spokane's stodgy, arch-Republican Spokesman-Review asked: "How do you like being in a Republican stronghold?" Said Harry Truman: "The Spokane Spokesman-Review and the Chicago Tribune are the worst in the United States." A few minutes later he denounced Congress as the "worst since the first...
...worst Congress" churned determinedly toward adjournment. Harry Truman to the contrary, the 80th, far from being the worst, had clearly won an honorable spot in U.S. legislative history...
Three years ago the Communists had joined the battle under the worst possible conditions. Germans hated Communism, partly because of long years of anti-Communist indoctrination by the Nazis, but Germans also had a deep-rooted historical fear of Slavs, which was further deepened by the Red Army's excesses in looting and vandalism. This barrier of German sentiment against the Red tide had been one of the rock-bottom facts in the cold war. By last week, the fact was tottering under the astute propaganda of the Russians...
...something or taking nothing." His voice drooping, Bidault reviewed his major defeats and minor victories. He had failed to have the Ruhr cut off from Germany. He had failed to sell the French program of a loose federation of German states as the political structure of the new Germany. Worst of all, perhaps, he had failed to get sufficient guarantees for the future security of France. But to keep her stake in the game, France would have to ante up: she would have to ratify...
...deadly enemy as it is the superior artist's most difficult love affair. At his best, Saroyan is a wonderfully sweet-natured, witty and beguiling kind of Christian anarchist, and so apt a lyrical magician that the magic designed for one medium still works in another. At his worst, he is one of the world's ranking contenders for brassy, self-pitying, arty mawkishness, for idealism with an eye to the main chance, for arrogant determination to tell damnably silly lies in the teeth of the truth...