Word: finest
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...eternally gracious in defeat. And that accounts for the social anguish caused by the international match-fixing scandal currently unfolding in South Africa, on top of similar allegations that surfaced recently in Pakistan, India and Australia. South Africa's captain, Hansie Cronje, supposedly a paragon of the game's finest virtues, has fallen into disgrace, his fate sealed by an inquiry this week that heard other players on the national team testify that their captain had been the conduit for match-fixing offers to his team from bookmakers...
...Lentz also showed himself to be one of the finest defensive catchers in college baseball. A First Team All-Ivy selection this season, Lentz threw out 19-of-55 would-be base stealers...
Known for his mythical stories, including "Hiroshima Notes," "A Personal Matter" and "The Silent Cry," many consider Oe to be Japan's finest writer...
...acute readings in works sublime and not so; what other actor would be pleased both to be the definitive romantic Hamlet, which he acted some 500 times, and to lend regal pedigree to Bob Guccione's pornific Caligula? Who else could earn critic Kenneth Tynan's prickly compliment "the finest actor on earth, from the neck...
...will say that Kurt Schork's death in an obscure war was senseless. And of course they are right: if only he had not made that last turn or, better yet, not been there at all. But Kurt died doing what he wanted to do. He was perhaps the finest war correspondent of his generation. Because he worked for a wire service and his byline rarely appeared in print, almost no one had heard of him. Yet everyone reading this tribute also read his articles...