Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week this bleak land was the pivot and focus for all the tensions of the Middle East. Its 500,000 Arab refugees were the area's most corrosive concentration of hatred for Israel. Its Arab Legion was the Middle East's finest force, whose allegiance could sharply tilt the whole area's precarious balance. Egypt wooed it and played venomously on the bitterness of its refugees. The British, swallowing their pride, strove to maintain their slipping hold on this onetime docile ward...
...largest contingent of golfers ever to make the trip will journey to Pinehurst, North Carolina for a week's practice on one of the finest courses in the nation. The team has had no real practice save for a few sessions in Dillon, practicing drives. Coach Harold Williams feels that the trip will afford the team an excellent opportunity to get in shape for the regular season...
Buried alive enroute to the St. Patrick's Day Parade a week ago, the Band was plowed up again this morning by a mobile unit from Omnibus, working in close liaison with Mayor Edward J. Sullivan's bank-baiting Finest...
Today the bronzes are part of the fabulous collection left the gallery by one of its top benefactors, five-and-dime Millionaire Samuel H. Kress. He got them, along with many of his finest paintings and sculptures, from Joseph Duveen (later Lord Duveen of Millbank), Lucullan art dealer extraordinary to such U.S. millionaire clients as John D. Rockefeller Jr., Andrew Mellon, John Pierpont Morgan Jr., Henry Clay Frick. Duveen staggered the art world in Depression 1930 by buying up the whole Dreyfus collection for $5,000,000. Then, believing it sound business to upstage his millionaire clients, :he pounced...
...Williams, Grand Trouper Bankhead magnificently steered Streetcar back on the track after that. "To me she brought to mind the return of some great matador to the bull ring in Madrid, for the first time after having been almost fatally gored, and facing his most dangerous bull with his finest valor . . . When the play was finished [on its Manhattan opening night] I rushed up to her and fell to my knees at her feet . . . Such an experience in the life of a playwright demands some tribute from him, and this late, awkward confession is my effort to give...