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 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.

Co-written with his daughter Sofia, the film is a mystifying embarrassment ; it's by far the director's worst work yet.

During the 1960s, Clemente batted over. 300 in every year except 1968, when, thanks to yet another freak off-season injury ( à la 1965 ), he got off to the worst start of his major league career, hitting just. 245 by the All-Star break, and doing well just to reach. 291 by season's end.

It seemed that the most difficult times for Henry were done-but the worst was yet to come.

The best of humanity was more than worthy of carrying on the cycle of creation, yet the worst of humanity obviously could not be trusted with wathan technology.

Earning only 68 points in the standings, setting a franchise record for losing and winless streaks after the All-Star break, the Colorado Avalanche have seen their worst season yet since moving to Denver.

Alexei has a minor fall at the Spala Hunting Lodge, which leads to his worst internal bleeding attack yet.

He writes that the worst thing that God could do to the Jewish people for failing to follow the law is Holocaust-level devastation, yet this has already occurred.

It was her worst seller yet, not charting at all in the UK.

Between eight and nine occurred in Tudela and the reaction of surprise, the surprise was audacious, atrocious confusion, but the reaction was furious and energetic, yet made in the worst conditions.

But, for the Jews, the worst was yet to come.

In a nationally televised game against the New York Knicks the Bobcats recorded yet another loss as their win percentage dropped to. 106, setting a new record for the worst season by an NBA team in history.

In the 2005 elections SF gained the worst election result since 1979 and lost yet another seat in parliament.

Although not the first such disaster of this kind to have happened at Faversham ’ s historic munitions works, the April 1916 blast is recorded as " the worst ever in the history of the UK explosives industry ", and yet the full picture is still somewhat confused.

The worst disaster to yet affect football in Britain happened two years later, after the Old Firm game on 2 January 1971.

Still, the move after nearly sixteen years did cause some damage to the show's ratings, and the worst was yet to come.

“ And yet the very worst curse when one is a woman is, in fact, not to understand that it is one .” No one has done more than Beauvoir to explain the conditions of that curse, and no one has more eloquently, irately challenged us to turn that curse into a blessing.

In the shower after practice, Lucas endures perhaps the worst prank yet from his constant tormentors Bruno ( Tom Hodges ) and Spike ( Jeremy Piven ).

The Abergele rail disaster, which took place near the town of Abergele, on the north coast of Wales in 1868, was, at the time, the worst railway disaster yet in Britain, and also the most alarming.

" Allmusic writer John Bush states that, " The Beach Boys ended the decade by releasing the worst album of their career ," describing the album as " yet another oddball attempt to push The Beach Boys into the contemporary mainstream despite their many songwriting and production flaws.

Hal Hinson of The Washington Post wrote that Coppola's segment was " by far the director's worst work yet.

This historical fiction novel tells the tragic story of America's worst, yet least known, industrial disaster.

Because the book defied the social norms of the day, upon release the book was called shocking, repulsive, and one critic called it Hardy's " worst yet.

However, the two could not resume their relationship at that time, and after John left the priesthood he fell into yet another affair with Kristen Blake, a former lover who was the adopted daughter of John's worst enemy, Stefano DiMera, the man who had brainwashed John to believe that he was Roman.

Edmonds wrote that the worst of the weather was from 12 October − 10 November, yet vividly described the wet and muddy conditions in August and their morale-sapping effect on British troops.