Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hint of trouble came with the announcement that director Joseph Anthony had retitled the play Falstaff. Now it is true that in Shakespeare's own lifetime the play was occasionally thus designated. And it is just as true that Falstaff is indeed the work's foremost figure. By this criterion we ought to turn Julius Caesar into Brutus, Cymbeline into Imogen, and The Merchant of Venice into Shylock...
...grise with the answer to that question is tiny, plump General Vo Nguyen Giap (pronounced Zhop), 55, Commander in Chief of the North Vietnamese army, Hanoi's Defense Minister and Deputy Premier, who shares with China's Mao Tse-tung a reputation as the world's foremost practitioner of the dark art of insurgency warfare...
Died. Joseph A. Walker, 45, foremost U.S. test pilot; in a mid-air collision of his F-104 Starfighter with one of the two XB-70 research bombers; near Barstow, Calif, (see THE NATION...
Holworthy Hall, the training grounds for Adams' athletes, upheld its traditional title as the Yard's foremost armpit...
...them, Union Chief William Hogarth invited the troublemakers into his union's inner council. They have pushed him into increasingly extreme positions. To the Labor government's appeals to the seamen not to strike, Hogarth replied: "If we were thinking of the country first and foremost, naturally there would be no strike. But charity begins at home...