Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extent to which these conditions exist tends to vary among the different dining halls, depending on the number of students each one serves. Unquestionably the Union is the worst in every respect with Eliot, Kirkland, Lowell, Winthrop, and Leverett Houses, served by the College kitchen, second. Since all the food is purchased by one office, and the quality does not differ from place to place, the fault would appear to lie in the degree of efficiency in the preparation of the food...
...ideas must emphatically mean that we do not uphold any regime abroad, no matter how corrupt, provided only that it is antiCommunist. At its best such a course would be stupidity, at its worst it would be nihilism. In any event it would simply strengthen the Communist cause. We are not-we must not be-on the horns of a dilemma of which one prong is Communism and the other prong is Fascism...
...party, a waggish friend suggested hanging a sign around his neck, "Do not feed the Maestro." Another evening was saved only when a nonartistic friend, arriving late, went over to the sulking Toscanini, slapped him on the back and said: "Did you see that Louis-Walcott fight?-worst fight I ever saw." Toscanini brightened immediately. Ramming his fist into his hand, he shouted, "He couldn't hit him, he couldn't hit him." The rest of the evening was a success...
...with a deep moral sense, he is outraged by man's inhumanity to man. The worst tantrum he ever threw was on the day of the Austrian Anschluss. He tried to rehearse, but left the podium after the first minute. He didn't stop raging until he had almost kicked a massive table to pieces, pulled all his scores from their shelves, nearly wrecked his dressing room. Then he sat down and cried...
...point is the election of NSA delegates to be reheld on Monday. Those few who withstand the rigors of campaigning and become victors at the ballot box will face a long and gruelling career that would make even a history and lit concentrator blanch. Better that they know the worst now and that the voters also know the duties to which they are committing the men of their choice. Winning the NSA election is more than just winning a free trip to Madison, Wisconsin in September...