Word: fewest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accompanying excerpts and snippets from the Pisan Can tos, reproduced in Pound's handwriting. Good poetry should stand on its own feet, but Pound's presents a special case. Although as a young man he campaigned tirelessly for the sharpest possible image expressed in the fewest possible words, his later poems grew increasingly allusive, personal and cryptic. Images were still present but encoded. Seeing what Pound saw before it filtered through his mind helps break that code. Sometimes the pictures simply amplify the words. Two pages of dark, roiling skyscape follow lines on Pisan's "undoubtedly various...
Yugoslavia seems to have the fewest economic problems among Marxist-Leninist states. It also has the least rigidly controlled economy in Eastern Europe, although Hungary is also testing innovative ways. Much Yugoslav economic planning and management has been decentralized. Initiative, hard work and quality output have been rewarded with generous bonuses and wage hikes. As a result, Yugoslav plants vastly outperform the state-owned enterprises in most other Communist-ruled countries. They also turn out an abundance of consumer products that make Belgrade, Zagreb and other large Yugoslav cities look more West European than Balkan...
Kirkland and Quincy Houses accepted the fewest number of transfer applications, admitting none and two applicants respectively...
More students applied to Winthrop and Dunster than any other Houses, and Kirkland and Currier Houses received the fewest number of applications...
...youngsters learned quickly and, with the handful of blue-chip upperclassmen anchoring a green team, Akers' prodigies became a scourge, ranking in the nation's top five in fewest points allowed and in total points scored. Says Senior Guard Rick Ingraham: "Things were different with Coach Akers and his staff-just the electricity they were generating. I can't remember being so enthused to go out and play...