Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prison life is real life, too-stripped of all pretensions and pleasures. An uncivilizing process, prison life almost inevitably reduces man to the status of a beast living for mere survival. Prison demands the best in man, often brings out the worst...
Caught between U.S. free enterprise and British socialism, Bizonia's economy has combined the worst features of each. Its labor has no incentive to work; business has none to produce. Bizonia's military governors had a choice between free enterprise and the sort of strictly planned economy that the Russians have in their zone. Meanwhile, the displays at the Hanover Fair were only samples of a stalled production machine...
...that was not the worst of it. Continued Zhdanov: "It so happened that Comrade Aleksandrov's book received recognition from the majority of our top philosophical workers, and received numerous favorable reviews. This means that all these others also share Aleksandrov's mistakes. That bespeaks an unsafe condition on our theoretical front. . . . Such conceptions if developed here would unavoidably lead to objectivism-to slavishness to bourgeois philosophers and overstating of their merits, thus depriving our philosophy of its militant advancing spirit...
...that night, Dalton almost told Britain the worst. Sterling, he said, acquired in "current transactions," would no longer be convertible into dollars. Dalton, however, did not tell the British that in agreeing to this suspension the U.S. had insisted that the $400 million remaining in the U.S. loan to Britain was to be frozen. In other words, the loan that had supported the British for a year was finished. It had not brought Britain the recovery which the American experts confidently, and the British experts reluctantly, had hoped it would...
...make a big boffola* of Will Y.ou Marry Me? The Gare St.-Lazare became Chicago's La Salle Street Station -a more appropriate background for Eddie, who played a key role in a plot more complicated than Crime, and Punishment. Eddie was sensational. Said Producer Vanya Vashvily: ". . . the worst director can't harm him. His left profile is as good as his right." But trouble started when, right in the middle of shooting, the farmer who owned Eddie refused to let him act at a piddling $40 a week...