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This was the worst thing I could have said.
Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.
One is tempted to say that, on the difference between the concepts of sovereignty in these two preambles, the worst war of the Nineteenth century was fought.
Like Napoleon, he was the worst of losers.
He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.
That goddamn redheader was the worst.
And in the dark days after the Great Flood of 1927 -- the worst natural disaster in the state's history -- the little plane was its sole replacement in carrying the United States mails.
In the second place, though, even if Birmingham is worse, no doubt Johannesburg, South Africa, beats it by several miles, and Buchenwald was one of the worst things that ever happened in the entire history of the world.
The worst was yet to come.
The club that overcame the worst start in a comparable period to win the pennant was New York's '51 Giants, who dropped 11 of their first 13.
Board Chairman Howard Simpson of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., testified the B & O was in its worst financial condition since the depression years and badly needed the economic lift it would get from consolidation with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.
She might peel him, once the worst of the agony was over.
Even rock-steady Anne -- Hell, Anne was the worst!!
There have been cases of humans being contaminated with americium, the worst case being that of Harold McCluskey, who at the age of 64 was exposed to 500 times the occupational standard for americium-241 as a result of an explosion in his lab.
Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.
Alexei's relations with his father suffered from the hatred between his father and his mother, as it was very difficult for him to feel affection for his mother's worst persecutor.
The worst that could be brought against him was that he had wished his father's death.
Peter was openly in love with Inês, recognized all the children she bore, and, worst of all, favoured the Castilians that surrounded her.
The early years of the colony had been years of struggle and hardship, but the worst was over, and there were no further famines in New South Wales.
The primary controller was ranked the 10th worst video game controller by IGN editor Craig Harris.

worst and notorious
* Gordon Gekko, Wall Street ( 1987 ) and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps ( 2010 )– The notorious " corporate raider " and greenmailer, Gordon Gekko ( played by Michael Douglas ), represents a synthesis of the worst features of various famous private equity figures.
Robin Hood Gardens is a particularly notorious example, although the worst of its problems have been overcome in recent years.
Coatbridge also had a notorious reputation for air pollution and the worst excesses of industry.
The Zenne was notorious for being one of Belgium's worst polluted rivers, since all effluents from the Brussels Capital Region were versed in it without treatment.
In an infamous scene from the twentieth episode of the fifth season of Magnum, P. I., Tom Selleck, as Magnum, is forced to sing the first few lines of the song ( before being mercifully interrupted by gunfire ) in a karaoke bar, in what has become notorious as one of the worst renditions of the song ever committed to film.
" On an episode of At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper, film critic Richard Roeper named it 1st place on his list of the worst films of 2003, he placed notorious bomb Gigli at number 3.
Some other regularly featured highlights include a " Breakdown " ( in which ESPN analyst Sean Salisbury would comedically break down an athlete's performance in a previously hosted segment ), " Do Not Lend Tapes to This Person " ( which is usually a pre / post-commercial close-up shot of a poster featuring a notorious celebrity such as Vince McMahon or George W. Bush, athlete or fictional character such as Bigfoot or Freddy Krueger ; a picture of the Sklars on the board was the series ' final shot ), " What to Look For " ( in which the Sklar brothers point out certain happenings that they find ironic or personally amusing ), " Cheap Shot of the Week " ( which usually showcases an athlete featured earlier in the show at their worst ), and " What Got Cut " ( which shows the viewer at home what didn't make the cut due to time constraints, also an acknowledgment that the show once ran in hour-long episodes, rather than the latter half-hour ).
His most notorious line, " Rick Moody is the worst writer of his generation ," set the tone for a collection of essays published under the title Hatchet Jobs.

worst and St
The citizens of St. Mary Mead like her but are often tired by her nosy nature and how she seems to expect the worst of everyone.
* March 17 – March 18 – St. Patrick's Day Flood: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, suffers the worst flooding in its history.
( Since the Lockerbie crash was a terrorist act in Scotland, the Staines crash remains England's worst air disaster, and Britain's worst air accident ). The crash was commemorated in June 2004, with the opening of a dedicated garden near the crash site, created at the request of relatives, and the unveiling of a stained glass window at St. Marys Church, where a memorial service was held.
The area around St Saviour's Dock, known as Jacob's Island, was one of the worst in London.
The storm roughly followed U. S. Route 151, with St. Nazianz and Chilton receiving the worst of the damage, caused largely by wind and hail.
The worst political violence took place on St. Kitts and Nevis.
Improvement of the slum housing conditions, amongst the worst in the capital, was first undertaken by St Pancras Council in 1906 at Goldington Buildings, at the junction of Pancras Road and Royal College Street, and continued on a larger scale by the St Pancras House Improvement Society ( subsequently the St Pancras and Humanist Housing Association, the present owner of Goldington Buildings ) which was established in 1924.
A number made their way to LeCarbet just south of St. Pierre behind a ridge that protected that town from the worst of the pyroclastic flow and were rescued on the beach there by Martinique officials.
On June 28, 2006, St. Johnsville faced its worst flood in a hundred years.
The collapse of the St. Francis Dam is considered to be one of the worst American civil engineering failures of the 20th century and remains the second-greatest loss of life in California's history, after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and fire.
* 1986: John Camp, St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch, " for his five-part series examining the life of an American farm family faced with the worst U. S. agricultural crisis since the Depression.
This was a lot of wind damage in coastal areas north of Daytona beach and the worst damage could be found between St. Augustine and the Georgia border.
The Great Fire in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador on July 8, 1892, is remembered as the worst disaster ever to befall that city.
At approximately 4: 45 in the afternoon on July 8, 1892, a dropped pipe in Timothy O ' Brien's stable at Freshwater Road at the top of Carter's Hill began what would become the worst fire in St. John's history.
While there was speculation of the team possibly changing teams, Diablo fans ' worst fears were realized when it was announced that the team had been sold to the St. Louis Cardinals for an estimated $ 9. 8 million.
To date the Titans have recorded their worst ever start to a season, losing four of their first five matches against St. George Illawarra, Melbourne, the Brisbane Broncos and North Queensland by scorelines of 16 – 25, 12 – 40, 8 – 14 and 12 – 22 respectively.
Ironically one of the worst offender had been the Irish state itself, which rented Hainault House on St. Stephen's Green for the Department of Justice.
East Anglia's worst rail crash occurred at Thorpe St Andrew between Norwich and Brundall in 1874, killing 25 people and injuring 75.
In 1893, the Council passed an ordinance prohibiting the emission of " thick grey smoke within the corporate limits of St. Louis " but was unable to enforce it because of legal action taken by one of the worst corporate offenders.
Organizing a group of people from Le Sueur and St. Peter, he headed out to New Ulm, where some of the worst fighting had occurred.
St. Louis, the city ranked second worst, was much farther from Newark than the cities in the top five were from each other.

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