Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the worst. It was not nearly as lethal as the 1925 twister that killed 689 people in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana...
...G.O.P. freshman Senator Irving Ives, commanding a majority coalition of Republicans and Democrats on Taft's labor committee, had managed to water down Taft's working draft until it was only a pale version of what Taft wanted. For Taft it was one of the worst lickings he had ever taken. In a fury, he prepared to carry the fight to the Senate floor, there try to put back everything that Ives & friends had taken out. There would be high, hot winds in the Senate soon...
...airlines, this winter was one of the worst. On one of its dark days, dour Donald W. Douglas rolled his first postwar plane, the DC-6, out of his Santa Monica plant. A fat-bellied big brother of the famed DC-4, the plane was sold to United Air Lines, Inc. and its boss William Allan Patterson, who looks and sometimes sounds like a small, precise adding machine. Patterson thought that his new buy was a good plane. And his line badly Heeded such a plane. But he had no intention of putting it into service until he was sure...
...those who quit were not replaced.) As he sweated off the wartime fat, some of the travelers who had been scared away by last winter's crashes began to come back. Last week, United was in the black again. The dismal airlines skyscape suddenly brightened. Was the worst over? No one could say for sure. But Pat Patterson thought it was. Coming from him, that sounded more encouraging than the cheery prophecies of an optimist...
Last week, Lawyer Lamb proved that he was still shrewd. He dropped the Mt. Clemens suit. To him, and the Mt. Clemens workers, the game did not seem worth the gamble. At best, they could not hope to collect more than a few thousand dollars. At worst, a Supreme Court reversal would kill all the pending portal suits-and rob union labor of one of its most potent bargaining weapons...