Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announcement to news scribes recently, McCaw stated that there was no use going west to escape maniacal professorial automobile drivers, for the morons of the sunset states are in a close second behind college professor as the worst and most dangerous drivers in the world...
...plodder who had faced one crisis after another in three uneasy years as president, gave a good account of himself. He had balanced the 1947 budget and had $25 million left over (he was $141 million in the red in 1946). Moreover, Brazil's inflation-one of the worst in South America-now seemed to have leveled...
...worst of all, Mr. Truman was losing out where his appeal had once been strongest. The man on the street was no longer content to admire him as just another "ordinary guy." From all over the country came a chorus of tired complaints: "He means well but he don't do well...
Sinners need not hang back, says the Cloud: "No man needs to think that he is presumptuous in daring to offer himself to God as a contemplative even though he has been the worst kind of a sinner in this life. He may offer to God the meek longing love of his heart and in secret set himself to beat on this Cloud of Unknowing. . . . Our Lord said to Mary [Magdalene], a sinner above all sinners . . . 'Thy sins be forgiven thee.' He said this not because of her deep contrition for her sins, nor because she knew...
...bankers feared what British exhibitors knew: that unless the rulers of Hollywood or Britain-or both-give in, many British movie houses would soon be shut down for lack of films. If that happens, British moviemen fear the worst: nationalization...