Word: deepest
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...generations Western sheepmen have reserved their deepest wrath for the coyote (Canis latrans), a wily cousin of the wolf with a healthy appetite for mice, rabbits and, according to the wool growers, lambs. Since 1972, when the Environmental Protection Agency flatly banned the most effective coyote poisons - Compound 1080 (monofluoride acetate) and the M44 (a spring-loaded tube containing sodium cyanide)-sheepmen have been howling loudly. They claim that a burgeoning coyote population is threatening their already risky business (which operates on a 2% profit margin) with ruin. They have begun attaching bumper stickers to their automobiles with legends like...
...bring her back. But on the basis of mutual tolerance, the two settled down to a marriage their son describes as idyllic, whose sine qua non was the absolute freedom of both partners to enjoy sexual adventures with other men and women. Even when their outside infatuations were deepest, they couldn't think of each other merely as "friends;" of course they could not think of each other as lovers; they could only be described as husband and wife...
Regardless of Essick's wait-and-see attitude, this year's Crimson swimming team is already shaping up as the deepest and best balanced in Harvard history, at least on paper. In fact, the squad has no discernable weaknesses in any event, and last year's only problem--depth--will not be a significant factor this winter...
Swelling demand put the deepest dent in canned goods. Also, less produce than anticipated was grown this year as many farmers put in bigger plantings of extraordinarily profitable wheat and soybeans. A Teamsters strike against California canners last summer left mountains of tomatoes and other perishables rotting at loading stations...
...strongest statements are those of Upton Sinclair, published first in 1923. Sinclair had no fanciful illusions in regard to the real function of the universities and colleges. Inevitably, he saved his strongest words and deepest vehemence for Harvard. We are told of Harvard, by its loyal friends, he says, that it is liberal in its educational policies: Is it liberal also in the policies by which it governs its investments? "Do you suppose," he asks, "the votes of...Harvard...are...for policies of justice and democracy in enterprises it exploits?" If you suppose that, he replies, you are naive...