Word: barest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Button far outdistanced his competition in the five compulsory school figures and is highly favored to lengthen his lead in the free skating tomorrow night. The 13 other skaters have only the barest mathematical chance to catch up with...
Young, Healthy & Devout. The institute's purpose is to train missionaries, but not missionaries to the outposts of civilization. Most of its graduates go back to their homes to reclaim backslid Christians and to evangelize those whom Naziism or Communism have deprived of the barest knowledge of Christianity...
...effective in bringing down the price of food, the average U.S. housewife did not need to look any farther than her pocketbook to know where she stood. Even U.S. farmers, who once railed against chain stores, now supported A & P. By cutting the costs of food distribution to the barest minimum, A & P had given farmers a bigger share of the consumer's dollar. For years A & P had carefully cultivated their good will in other ways. It spent millions showing them how to get better prices by improving the quality of their products. It persuaded them...
...changed it legally in 1949), grew up amid a ferocious struggle with poverty. His father, Otto Caplin-a glib, cheerful, optimistic man who studied law at Yale, had a dilettante's interest in art and nursed continual schemes for making his fortune-managed to eke out only the barest living. It was largely his mother's courage and resourcefulness that kept the family a going concern...
...evening. A right hook caught Dauthuille flush on the jaw, gave ringside cameramen one of the finest knockout pictures of the season (see cut). Jake's sudden come-alive finish left some sportwriters unimpressed ("manufactured melodrama," one called it), but it saved Jake's title by the barest of margins: the fight had only 13 seconds to go when Dauthuille was counted...