Word: deadliest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week the steady inroads of these price-fixing monopolists on Britain's pocketbook had turned free enterprise into a popular rallying cry. "Who are the greatest enemies of private enterprise?" thundered Lord Beaverbrook's powerful Sunday Express. "Not the Socialists. Not the Communists. The deadliest enemies of private enterprise are the foolish men who damage and undermine it from within. The worst harm of all is inflicted by the irresponsible recklessness of price fixers...
...delay. They even offered a motion urging Mendès to return to Brussels for one more try at persuading other EDC partners to accept his sweeping amendments. It was a desperate retreat for men who had previously denounced Mendès' revisions. EDC opponents countered with the deadliest weapon in the rules of order, a question prealable-which calls for an immediate vote to decide whether the subject before the Assembly is worth discussing at all. To adopt it would be to kill EDC humiliatingly...
Many thanks for all your enlightening news on Chou En-lai [TIME, May 10] - the kind of information so badly needed. You handled the deadliest weapon against the threatening Communistic . . . systems in the widespread publication of the naked truth on the personalities of these Red gods and the crimson trails of their careers ... I have no doubt that the terrible truth of such consistent information will have greater effect than the now flourishing hate campaigns launched by the Russian press...
...miserable little newcomer to the animal kingdom. Baby Bandoola's trunk was a stunted snout that he could barely move, his forehead and back were matted with long wavy hair, and his skin was a loud purple. Within 48 hours he got a grim hint of the deadliest fact of a young elephant's life, a tiger in attack. Clawed and trumpeting, his auntie bolted, but his torn and bleeding mother sheltered him like a slab of concrete till the "oozies" came...
...lieder of Brahms showed what an energetic performance can do for songs that are sometimes the deadliest bores of a concert program. Miss Wheeler did not explore the expressive sound of German words as much as she might have, but she colored her voice effectively with the changing moods of the text. In arias by Handel and Mozart, as well as in the Brahms songs, she seemed most comfortable in the middle range...