Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worst news of all was that the U.S., which had had ten years of good crops, and which is the largest single supplier, this year had to record a failure. It had been a bumper year again for wheat, but the corn crop had withered. The total supplies of U.S. cereals, as estimated last week, were 14,400,000 tons under 1946, which was almost exactly the amount the U.S. had exported to needy nations...
Last week from one peak, hidden in rain and fog, fishermen heard an explosion that echoed from cliff to cliff. The Kvitbjoern, bound from Tromso to Oslo, burned for several hours. None of its 27 passengers and eight crewmen survived. It was the worst disaster ever for the Norwegian Airlines (headed by Admiral Byrd's old pilot, Bernt Balchen...
...world's most beautiful city and the worst thing that ever happened to Brazilians-the largest city in the world that is unabashedly and with deep conviction a playground." Dr. Tavares can hardly wait till the capital is moved to the west, and officials can really buckle down to business...
Some doctors disagreed. Cried a Ministry of Public Health spokesman: "Absurd! . . . The worst that could have resulted was a case of diarrhea and an irritated rectum." But Detective Bascou was so sure of his ground that he closed his investigation as a police problem and recommended that a medical commission carry on. Solution of the Mâcon "murders" was now up to the doctors...
Like all true tragic heroes, Shoeshine's boys are destroyed less by outside circumstance than by their inability, under the worst of circumstances, to keep faith with themselves and with all that they have reason to trust. And like all true tragic heroes, they are destroyed by a combination of their noblest traits and their weakest ones...