Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...telling one. He hit most of the vulnerable points of such protest--their theatricality, their callous manipulations of officials and police, their irresponsibility, and their numbness to the hostile and repressive reaction of the mass of United States society. But why did Gardner decide to abuse the worst of the radicals for the better part of his final speech and cast only an occasional critical sentence at what he called "that complacent lump of self-satisfied Americans who fatten on the yield of this society but never bestir themselves to solve its problems...
...Landing first in North Africa, his men stormed the beaches of Sicily, pushed up through Southern Italy, then finally prepared to attack Hitler's Festung Europa itself. Target: Normandy. D-day was set for June 5, 1944, but bad weather over the English Channel, the worst in years, forced postponement. There was only a tiny gleam of hope?better weather forecast for the 6th?and Eisenhower made the most momentous decision of his career...
...first term. Re-elected even more overwhelmingly in 1956 than in 1952 (57% of the popular vote v. Stevenson's 42%), he almost immediately ran into trouble. His Secretary of the Treasury, George Humphrey, disavowed his budget as too big. The economy slipped toward the worst recession since 1932. After a century of neglect, the problems of the nation's blacks burst forth. In 1954, the Supreme Court finally outlawed school segregation. Though Ike did not help to implement the decision, he did act when he had to, sending troops into Little Rock, Ark., in 1957 to enforce a court...
...growth to raise its price. As buildings leapfrog around the holdouts, other taxpayers generally have to foot the bill for the costly roads, water and sewer lines that make land richly salable. In addition to encouraging the growth of "slurbs"-half-city, half-country belts with the worst features of both - the process has driven up costs of homesites by 68% in the past eight years, forcing many families out of the market. "Today's property tax," says Robert Hutchins, president of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, "promotes almost every unsound public policy imaginable...
...worst student disturbance in the recent history of U.S. education seemed to be nearing an end last week. After a violent, 134-day boycott of San Francisco State College, representatives of the Black Students Union and the Third World Liberation Front signed an armistice. It was partly inspired by declining support for their cause and secretly worked out during ten days of negotiation with a faculty committee appointed by the school's acting president, Dr. Samuel I. Hayakawa. Governor Ronald Reagan called it "a victory for the people of California," but that remains to be seen...