Word: clearest
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Carter has different skills. He is more nimble, mentally and verbally, than Reagan when confronted with an unexpected question or when his memory of governmental detail is suddenly tested. His impromptu replies may be the clearest and most carefully couched of any recent President's?a comforting quality in an office where offhand remarks can rattle the world. But Carter's mental agility does not necessarily mean he is the wiser man. His mind readily grasps detail, orders the options and focuses down on a solution to a given problem. But it often fails to place that problem...
...Copernic bombing was the clearest indication yet that neofascism and anti-Semitism were testing French society. In the week before the explosion, two synagogues and two Hebrew schools in Paris were machine-gunned. On the day of the huge protest march through Paris, thugs tried to bomb a Jewish-owned grocery store in Grenoble and bar in Marseille, and attacked dozens of Jewish stores and homes in the countryside. Says Historian Pascal Ory, a specialist on the French right: "The new generation does not have firsthand memories of the failure of Nazism. They can romanticize it today...