Word: finest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fortissimo, the Berliners showed off the strengths that have made them the class of world-class ensembles. First there are the string sections, violins, violas, cellos and basses, which play together as one, producing a dark, creamy sound unsurpassed in lushness and sheer beauty. The brasses gleam like the finest gold, with especially choice nuggets among the horns. And there are the woodwinds, blending their highly distinctive sounds together like expert chamber musicians. In concert, the Berlin Philharmonic becomes a single instrument, devised by a craftsman on the order of a Stradivarius, played by a consummate virtuoso...
...later in Baltimore. The world became a gray hell of treeless streets and schoolyard bullies. But Baker had a platoon of entertaining uncles. There was Uncle Hal the blowhard, who turned up en route he said, to a major business deal involving "a forest full of walnut of the finest, rarest quality. Its location was known only to him. He would need great cleverness to keep New York businessmen from wheedling its location out of him, but he wasn't worried. He knew how to handle such men." He stayed for months and left only after wheedling Baker...
...Senate salary; and her acceptance while First Lady of a gift freezer that was linked to an alleged influence-peddling scandal. Neither issue did her much harm. During a Senate probe of the Democratic freezer flap, the highly partisan Republican Joseph R. McCarthy called her one of the "finest things about the White House" and declared her above suspicion...
Brown had none of the same problems. In the opening 10 minutes, the Bruins dominated a Harvard squad that looked tentative after a one-week break between matches. And Providence's finest coasted on this early momentum until the halftime whistle...
...halls of fame of three major fields of sport: college football, pro football and track and field. When Jim Thorpe won the pentathlon and the decathlon at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden's King Gustav V, presenting the gold medals, proclaimed him "the finest athlete in the world." Said Thorpe in response: "Thanks, King." Six months later the medals were taken back and his feats expunged from the record books when it was discovered that Thorpe had earned $15 a week during two summers as a minor league outfielder, thus forfeiting his amateur status. The loss...