Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Diem's first 15 months were his finest. He survived against all odds. He split up large landholdings and sold them off to landless farmers; he expanded rice production and encouraged light industry...
...Then, for last summer's Olympic trials, the lanky (6 ft. 11n., 164 lbs.) athlete from Laurel, Miss.* decided to concentrate on the broad jump. Ever since then, his searching left hand has reached for records, and his power-packed legs have made him the world's finest broad jumper...
...explanation lies in the fact that, like the composer Rameau, Pirandello first turned to the stage at the age of 50, and there wrought his finest work. He had begun as a poet, and then gained renown as a novelist. So he had plenty of writing experience when he decided the theatre was his true metier...
...hero to every South Korean, and often called "the father of the ROK army." Invited to Korea by the junta, Van Fleet briskly put his seal of approval on the generals' coup d'etat against democratically elected Premier John Chang. "The finest thing that has happened to Korea in a thousand years," declared Van Fleet...
...helped the men's relay team set another world record, of 39.1 sec. Gary Gubner, muscular 18-year-old New York University freshman, established himself as new Prince of the Whales by putting the shot 60 ft. 7½ in. As a climax, the meet provided the finest display of jumping in track history. The U.S.'s Ralph Boston leaped to a world broad jump mark of 27 ft. 1¾ in., and Russia's Valery Brumel soared over the high jump bar at 7 ft. 4 in. to beat U.S. High Jumper John Thomas...