Word: finest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reputations: the artist and the man. Waugh the writer needs little touching up. Such novels as Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Black Mischief, A Handful of Dust, Scoop and that masterpiece of World War II, the Sword of Honour trilogy, established him as one of the century's finest satirists. The Diaries underscore just how closely Waugh's fiction followed his life, from high jinks at public school to the hallucinations chronicled in The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold...
Unlike Harvard's previous triumphs this year over Columbia and Cornell, this one had class. It was a solid, take-it-to-'em affair, the Crimson's finest hour since New Haven two years ago. Dartmouth just wasn't prepared...
Johnson and Martignetti hired Universal Sound, a ten-piece band from Berklee School of Music for tonight's party. Johnson says the group will play a lot of Stevie Wonder music and just "the finest in dancing music," adding that the $1.50 cover charge will include free beer and soft drinks...
...Dodgers breezed past the listless Yankees, 6-1, on a barrage of home runs and the finest pitching Burt Hooton has ever unleashed on anybody. The boys in blue hit homers in each of the first three innings off Hunter as they powered their way to an insurmountable 5-0 lead...
...developing the housing policies and monitoring my work., Indeed, I am flattered in the knowledge that in the years I was in the Housing Office I was personally able to ride so roughshod (if your article is to be believed) over the policies developed by some of the finest minds in Harvard. In short, there are many other actors who deserve star billing in the housing story far more than I. If you are to evaluate what was done, and how it was done, it would seem, only fair to examine why it was done. But frankly, such rehashing...