Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year ago, my father's funeral procession, led by two of the city's finest mounted policemen, was routed down the main street right through the heart of town. Thus the city of Griffin, Ga. paid its final respects to one of its oldest Negro citizens. Despite all the puny efforts of Gauleiter "Hummon" Talmadge, the people in the South will still abide by the laws of the nation; and if he would pull off that storm trooper's uniform, he wouldn't be so bad himself...
Says Lawyer Justin Moore, the man who found Preacher Adams for Richmond: "Ted Adams is probably regarded by a vast majority of Southern Baptists of every political persuasion as the finest Baptist preacher in the world. But the fact remains that he could never be elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention...
...jacket blurbs of Frederic Prokosch's latest book proudly advertise the conversion of "one of our finest descriptive writers" into a man who for the first time makes his background subordinate to his action, wastes no time on externals, and turns out a story with a good, vigorous plot. There is no doubt that plot is a fine thing, but in A Tale for Midnight, the author has used it only as a device for holding strings of words together. He was probably more honest when, in earlier works like The Asiatics he made no excuse for his writing save...
...some cases, said Scheele, manufacturers had left virus cultures lying around for months and had failed to filter them before adding formaldehyde. Why this was permitted he did not say. Now, filtering must be done within 72 hours before the virus is killed and with the finest of glass filters...
...Miss Harris." The Post's Richard Watts declared that he had "never seen a finer portrayal of Joan," and Walter Kerr of the Trib pronounced her "fiercely, wonderfully believable" in her "dazzling honesty." The Times's Brooks Atkinson called her a "fiery particle" and Joan "her finest, most touching performance...