Word: worst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists' worst humiliation came in West Harlem, where hulking Ben Davis, one of the convicted Communist leaders, was defending his seat on the city council. It was the only elective office in the U.S. held by a Communist, and the party poured its resources into the fight. Comrades sent sound trucks crisscrossing the district, harangued street-corner meetings nightly, and Candidate Davis shouted himself out of voice...
Despite some officers' worst fears, the new CNO said no heads would roll. Naval Aviator Sherman asked Vice Admiral John Dale Price, Denfeld's vice chief of operations and an airman, to stay on at his job until spring. After that, Rear Admiral Lynde Dupuy McCormick, a submariner, now boss of the 12th Naval District, will become vice chief. The Navy's two top jobs are usually split between a seagoing admiral and an airman. Sherman abolished Operation 23, which had been disseminating anonymous pro-Navy propaganda during the months of political feuding, but took no punitive...
Some 20 days later, Paxton's party reached the first settlement in Ladakh Province, on the Indian side of the Himalayas. But the worst day was still to come. At Kardang Pass the travelers faced a 400-foot glacier, slick as mirror-glass and tilted at a 45° angle. They dismounted and crept on foot up a narrow path hacked in the ice. Donkeys and horses had to be helped up the treacherous slope. Gallant Vincoe had come close to the end of her tether. The caravan cook encouraged her, step by step: "Put this foot here...
...around an easel on which was displayed one of the last cartoons Helen Hokinson had drawn, a gift to the fund drive. The caption ("So Mary's working for the Community Chest too. How brave!") seemed an oddly suitable epitaph for Cartoonist Hokinson, who had died in the worst crash in U.S. airline history (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Editor Harry Ainsworth, who has raised The People's circulation from 300,000 to 4,958,000 in 24 years, also puts crime and sex stories in their place-generally on Page One. Last week The People's eager readers were being filled in on THE WORST MEN IN THE WORLD (the inmates of Alcatraz) and how HYENAS EAT 90 BABIES...