Word: finest
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...makes us want to go out on that field and destroy," says Halfback Melvin Bratton. As it happens, the Hurricanes' cleanest liver is their finest player and main destroyer. In Vinny Testaverde, they have produced a third quarterback for the ages in just the '80s, their sixth decade in the business but the first to speak of. The Hurricanes had a tradition in the '40s, but not of winning. They canceled a game with UCLA rather than play against Jackie Robinson...
...sardonic understatement, gives this old hat plot new life. He plays Mick with a warmth and naivete which make all of his gaffes fun to watch, and his encounter with two prostitutes is a comic stand-out. "Crocodile Dundee" surely will not be remembered as one of history's finest films, but, thanks to Paul Hogan, it proves to be a fair enough...
...eloquent half- hour address began and ended with standing ovations, and was interrupted by applause eleven times. It was, said House Speaker Tip O'Neill, the "finest speech I've ever heard in my 34 years in Congress." Above the din of cheering officials, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole said to Mrs. Aquino, "Cory, you hit a home run." Without missing a beat, Aquino smiled and shot back: "I hope the bases were loaded...
Perhaps Tisch's finest acquisition was also his toughest. In 1974 he fought for nine months to take over CNA Financial, an insurance company that battled to remain independent. Tisch won; Loews owns 80% of the company. After the purchase, Tisch put in place a new chief executive. Today CNA is Loews' most profitable division. Still, Tisch felt bruised by the struggle and vowed never again to launch a hostile takeover...
Anyone who is good with words can manufacture eloquence when it is required, but by now the war had burned away this old feature writer's professional glibness. What Pyle had begun to send back home was some of the finest war reporting ever done. His folksiness fit the slow, edgy lulls between battles, and he knew how to suggest, in spare language that avoided Hemingway's staginess but clearly was learned from the early best of Hemingway, how it felt to stumble through the bloody...