Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mississippi voters had given ranting old Congressman John E. Rankin, last of their nationally notorious demagogues, the worst beating of his career. In a special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Theodore G. Bilbo, John Rankin finished fifth among five...
...abundant food in de luxe restaurants, watch new American cars roll down the streets, look into shop windows filled with American canned goods, Italian woolens and Swiss watches, you can pretend it is not failing. But once you get outside Athens, you realize that the situation is the worst it has been since October 1944 when the Germans left. The Greek Government, the high command, the Army and the people are carrying out a sort of mass psychological "sitdown strike"; the Communist-led guerrillas are not in the grip of this self-induced inertia...
Perhaps the worst problem is the 300,000 refugees from guerrilla country. These peasants know that the Government has started the forced evacuation of a quarter-million civilians from the countryside because the Army cannot defend them, and carry out an offensive at the same time. And they wonder how they are going to live this winter crowded into mud huts, shanties and abandoned buildings on Government relief, which will provide them with less than a pound of bread and about 15? in cash a day. The huts in which they live, unlike the airfields, are not "winterized...
...other gridirons last week: ¶ At Memphis, once-proud Tennessee absorbed the worst beating (43-13) since Major Bob Neyland began coaching there 22 years ago. The man responsible for it: Mississippi's wonder-boy passer, Charley Conerly, 21, who scored two touchdowns, threw passes for the other four...
Even the Classical sections of the evening were filled with contradictions. Schubert's Fifth Symphony, the longest single work and the only one played as originally written, was technically the worst; in both first and third movements the orchestra fell apart, violins didn't play together and so on. And yet, the idea was there. Schubert is easy to play wrong; it can be slushy or dry or cute; to get the unique Schubert characteristic of Romantic Classicism and complex simplicity is difficult. But the orchestra, despite its momentary technical amnesia, got that blend perfectly...