Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Worst of all, a callous News Chronicle reporter suggested a recipe for rook pie.* So far, however, rooks were proving just as hard to hit as ever. As John Gay, another British poet, had put it: "To shoot at crows is powder flung away...
...package, says Dr. Crampton. A man of 65 may have a 40-year-old heart, 50-year-old kidneys, an 80-year-old liver, and try to live the life of a 30-year-old. A specialist should find out just where old age has got in its worst licks. The examination should include a search for damaged organs, and a psychological study of the patient's worries and hopes. Then the doctor should recommend "antiaging" devices. For instance, diet: at 60 most men need more protein, calcium, iron than men of 30, but fewer fats and carbohydrates...
...have betrayed him. The pastor's son (Preben Lerdorff) is suffering because he has fallen in love with his young stepmother. His sense of honor is strong enough to poison his love, but not as strong as the love itself. The young wife (Lisbeth Movin) is in the worst predicament of the three; though she suffers agonies of desire, neither conscience nor pity can touch her. The others are merely damaged; she is a lost soul, dying before the spectators' eyes...
This is a film that explores moral complexities. The wife is brought to her deepest ruthlessness not only by her own genuine love and her own innate weakness, but also by beginning to learn the worst about her husband, by perceiving that she may lose her lover through the best that is in him, and crucially, by her husband's most earnest efforts to face his own evil, and to be good to her. Moreover, the young lovers' sin of youthfulness is perceived with complete compassion, even by the husband...
Last week, the shortage of steel was pinching off production in the whole industry. After a drop of 3,000 units a fortnight ago, auto production last week fell 17,600 more to 85,345 units, the worst production week in three months. G.M. last week shut down eleven Chevrolet assembly plants, and this week closed the Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac assembly plants for a week. Plymouth also shut down for a week. Ford, which had closed earlier for model changes, had not got back to volume production. On top of the steel shortage were the threats of the rambunctious...