Word: fiercest
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When the Congress Party achieved its landslide victory in India's latest general election 15 months ago, the fiercest critics of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and former Defense Minister Krishna Menon were swept out of office. But the government's clumsy handling of the Chinese invasion last October gave new hope to the shattered non-Communist opposition. The hope was well founded. In the past fortnight, three of Nehru's most acid-tongued foes have scored overwhelming by-election victories over hand-picked Congress candidates for the Lok Sabha, lower house of Parliament...
...benches, smashing railroad cars, tipping Volkswagens, and rending fences. Then off to nearby Westminster Choir College, where from dormitory windows some of the girls defended their honor by tossing out panties and others by tossing out potted plants. When the bonfires cooled next morning, 14 of Princeton's fiercest Tigers were booked and bailed. "Shocking," said Princeton President Robert F. Goheen. whose wrought-iron fence was shorter by 30 ft. after the rumpus. Philosophized Governor Hughes: "It's spring, and the sap begins to run." The annual undergraduate sugaring-off rites scorched the ivy elsewhere in the league...
Some of the greatest individuals the world has known dedicated their works ad majorem Dei gloriam. But it was really for the greater glory of man that they recreated the heavens and the earth in their paintings, molded the fiercest and the softest forms as if marble had become wax, and folded the world into their ledgers. For, as Will Durant said of the Renaissance, "first of all it took money, smelly bourgeois money...
Grey Utopia. Last weekend, with Poole and 32 other top Tories who were summoned to the Prime Minister's country home, Macmillan started drafting the party's broad, long-term program of social and economic reform. Its theme, said Macmillan, will be "Modernize-not Nationalize." In his fiercest attack on Labor in many months, the Prime Minister charged in a speech to Glasgow Tories that "the Socialists have nothing to offer except old threats supported by sly promises." The Opposition, declared Macmillan, still clings to its "old-hat" view of a socialist utopia, in which "everybody is more...
...comfortably maintained its lead as the world's largest primary aluminum producer. As sales rose 8% to a record $515 million, and profits jumped 24% to $34 million. Aluminium poured 790,000 tons of aluminum around the world v. 700,000 by the U.S.'s Alcoa, its fiercest competitor...