Word: finest
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After graduating in 1985 with a degree in computer science, Sudduth gave up crew and took up single sculls. Considered the finest sculler in the world, he is favored to bring a gold medal home from Seoul. Sudduth beat three-time gold medalist Pertti Karpinnen of Finland in a regatta in Italy earlier this year...
...plains of the Midwest, botanists are finding plenty of volunteers to help them reclaim the prairies and replant the wildflowers that belong there. In a formidable climate where there are hailstorms in June and frost in August, juvenile offenders at a Wyoming detention center have some of the finest gardens around...
...season was perhaps her finest. In 13 games, Whitley yielded just seven goals, and allowed more than one goal in just one contest. She posted nine shutouts to set a new Harvard record and saved 92.3 percent of the shots she faced...
...bold new cable venture. Dubbed, with typical Turner flourish, TNT (Turner Network Television), the new channel will debut on Oct. 3 with a telecast of Turner's favorite movie, Gone With the Wind. After that, it will offer an array of, in Turner's modest description, the "finest programming on this planet," ranging from Charlton Heston in A Man for All Seasons to (Turner hopes) major sports events like the Rose Bowl and the Masters golf tournament. Industry observers are skeptical that Turner can acquire such blockbuster events, but there is a growing sense that his ambitious new network just...
When Clarice Conley was nine years old, her mother and grandmother began the initiation. Dressed in her finest, shoes shiny, gloves pristine, she was allowed to follow them through the heavy oak doors of the Highland Park Ebell Club in the hills of northeastern Los Angeles. In the cavernous main hall, surrounded by distinguished ladies with brows aloft, she listened to dramatic readings, or speeches on art or tropical Brazil. The children even had a dining room all their...