Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These somber omens overhung the Moscow talks on Finland's future. Last week the Kremlin sent a special plane to fetch ailing Finnish Premier Mauno Pekkala, to join the Finnish mission negotiating a "friendship" pact. Finns feared the worst...
...attended the last meeting of the People's Political Council (which for ten years had functioned as China's provisional Parliament). In his farewell address, Chiang had some significant things to say about tolerance: "I have committed many blunders during these past ten years, but the worst was my tolerance toward the Communists. I allowed them to take part in the People's Political Council and gave them other privileges which resulted in our present civil war. However, I am confident that we will not repeat this mistake...
...always deeper religious insight . . . civilizations will have fulfilled their function when once they have brought a mature higher religion to birth; and, on this showing, our own Western post-Christian secular civilization might at best be a superfluous repetition of the pre-Christian Graeco-Roman one, and at worst a pernicious backsliding from the path of spiritual progress. In our Western world of today, the worship of Leviathan-the self-worship of the tribe -is a religion to which all of us pay some measure of allegiance; and this tribal religion is, of course, sheer idolatry...
...Yorkers are proud of almost everything but their schools. They know that most of these are nothing to brag about: often dingy and dilapidated, the teachers underpaid and overworked, the classrooms overcrowded and dirty. New Yorkers have suspected that the city's worst schools are in the costive squalor of Harlem. But just how bad Harlem's schools are, few New Yorkers knew until last week...
...four-hand piano version of Rachmaninoff's long-forgotten first symphony was found in Moscow two years ago; Soviet scholars, looking farther, uncovered orchestral parts in Leningrad. (The Russians, who once scorned Rachmaninoff as "the servant and tool of the worst enemies of the proletariat" because he left Russia after the revolution, now honor him as one of Mother Russia...