Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night last week Jan Drake draped herself in her best stone-marten stole and joined Little Augie for drinks at the Copa, then went on to a spaghetti house (Husband Drake had a nightclub engagement in Washington). After dinner, they headed for the Drake home in Queens to look at boxing matches on TV. They never got there. Forty-five minutes after leaving Manhattan, Augie's black Cadillac was found on a quiet street in Queens, its motor still running. Jan Drake was slumped against the car window, one bullet hole in her temple, a second in her neck...
...state categorically that our officers in the embassy in Ankara and the consulate in Izmir were deeply concerned about this case from the beginning and that they acted properly and with good judgment to safeguard the rights of the accused. In my opinion, [they] have lived up to the best traditions of the Foreign Service...
...pierced shadow. Her smoothly involuted forms look like Moore's women without the womanliness; they are more like analytical geometry than like people. More powerful are the forged iron abstractions of Italy's Francesco Somaini, at 33 a newcomer to the big time, who won the prize for the best foreign sculptor. Rough, inelegant for an Italian, Somaini produces work resembling meteorites and mountains, full of energy but at the same time monumental...
Last year the Los Angeles Dodgers finished in seventh place, a dismal 21 games from the top. This year the team had no pitcher that could win 20 games, no slugger challenging for the home-run or runs-batted-in titles, and the best-hitting regular was Wally Moon with a bare .300. But at the start of last week, the Dodgers galumphed into the lead by shattering the league-leading Giants in three successive games, unceremoniously tumbling them from first to third...
...best-two-out-of-three playoffs with the Braves this week, the Dodgers match their hard-pressed luck against a team that many baseball writers rated the world's best at season's start. Win or lose, the Dodgers were amazed to be there...