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Word: foremost (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advisers finally tipped him off a full 2 hrs. and 15 min. after Pueblo had been boarded. Even if the chain of communication had been less sluggish and reached Johnson in time for him to approve an air strike, his O.K. would have meant nothing. The world's foremost airpower did not have the retaliatory capacity ready in the right place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: In Pueblo's Wake | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

Lister Hill was born to his role as the nation's most effective advocate of public health legislation. Son of one of the South's foremost physicians, the courtly Alabaman was named after the English surgeon Joseph Lister. After entering the Senate in 1938, the eight-term Congressman focused his energies on medical problems. As a member and since 1955 chairman of the Labor and Public Welfare Committee, he helped forge the nation's public health programs, most notably through the Hill-Burton Act, which has provided federal funds for 8,000 hospitals and health clinics. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alabama: Leaving the Hill | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

...rates, free college advertisements, a weekly Teacher's Guide to TIME, classroom wall maps and charts, a study guide to the Foreign Policy Association's Great Decisions, and TIME's Guide to the Year 2000, written by Dr. Isaac Asimov, one of the world's foremost forecasters of future socio-scientific realities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jan. 12, 1968 | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

...script a little and introduced a few new scenes in converting it to musical comedy. It isn't enough. Though Holy Matrimony was a charming comedy, its success is in retrospect attributable to the genius of its star, Monty Woolley. In the same role--that of England's foremost turn-of-the-century painter, Priam Farll--Vincent Price falls completely flat and pulls the show down with...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Married Alive | 1/8/1968 | See Source »

...foremost of the changes took place in the goal, where Crimson. Junior Bill Diercks had two bad games. Weiland gave Bob, Higgins his first varsity start and the senior responded with a shutout...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Skaters Downed Twice in St. Paul | 1/4/1968 | See Source »

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