Word: fiercest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...welterweight divisions. It was how Duran fought: with a burning-eyed fury that was atavistic, nihilistic, merciless in his rage to win. When he defeated Sugar Ray Leonard last June to strip the Olympic hero of his welterweight crown, Duran at last won recognition as not only the fiercest but perhaps also the finest fighter of his time...
...something new is going on in those sleepy hours from 7 to 9: the Battle of the Morning, TV's fiercest competition of the day or night. The battle pits three of television's most engaging personalities against one another...
...three straight years Kansas City waged war with the New York Yankees, trading bone-jarring slides, brush-back pitches and dramatic home runs. The Royals-Yankees match quickly became one of baseball's fiercest showdowns, but it was always the New Yorkers who went to the World Series. The Phillies were even more conspicuous failures in the stretch. In 1964 they set an unenviable standard for September swoons, blowing a big lead by winning only four games in the season's final 2½ weeks. The last time the Phillies won a pennant, in 1950, they were wiped...
...argue that what was best for grandfather is not good enough for immigrant children today. For one thing, grandfather often never really learned English in the melting-pot school. For another, he could get a job right out of elementary school. The local political struggle over bilingual schools is fiercest in New York too. A black critic recently described the program as "a Puerto Rican employment program...
...York City, the nation's fashion capital, the $50 million-a-year modeling business has long been the arena for some of the fiercest and most feline competition in the U.S. Rarely has the competition been more savage than today, when top models can, and do, switch agencies almost as often as they change costumes, often at the drop of a harsh word or a seductive whisper...