Word: fiercest
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...been "wrung out" of the economy, and that was the chief aim of Thatcher's monetarism. North Sea oil revenues have suffered from the international oil glut, and much of the treasury's eroded bonanza has had to pay for unemployment benefits. The fiercest riots in Britain in a century exploded last summer in cities throughout the country, reflecting not only deep racial problems but the bitter resentment of the young who could not find work...
...Basques were among the fiercest fighters against Franco during the Spanish Civil War, so enraging the dictator that he subsequently levied special punishments against the northern provinces, including the removal of their long-cherished political autonomy. In a sense, the Basque problem, with its overlays of terrorism, bloodshed and mistrust, is the most enduring and dangerous legacy of that ugly fratricidal period...
...reason for the change was Ireland's indignation about the riots that had exploded in Dublin the previous Saturday when 15,000 demonstrators, organized by I.R.A. supporters, marched on the British Embassy. Some 500 of the protesters engaged in pitched battles with the police. In the melee, the fiercest confrontation in the republic since the 1920s, about 200 civilians and policemen were injured, and the damage to property amounted to more than $2 million...
...show out of it. So does Carl Chase, who plays Williams. He does not look like Hank; he does not sound much like him. But through craft or luck or force of will, he becomes Williams. The competition is tough, but Chase is giving what may be the finest, fiercest performance on the London stage this summer...
Down the mean streets of Beirut and across the green mountains to the east, the guns of Lebanon sounded once again last week. In the fiercest fighting since 1978, Syrian peace-keeping forces and Lebanese Christian militiamen squared off for control of Zahle (pop. 200,000), a city in the Bekaa Valley, 25 miles east of Beirut. For eight days the Syrian forces, using field artillery, tank guns and rocket launchers, pounded Christian positions in and around the city, which is located just off the strategic Beirut-Damascus highway. Christian militiamen in the city and nearby hills returned the fire...