Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Behind the Eight Ball." In a way, the Republicans had been trapped. Sensing a strong public reaction against the Administration's deficit-spending policies, they have made economy the foremost issue of the 1963 legislative session. They could, therefore, hardly support the public works appropriation in all its freespending glory. Explained Wisconsin's Republican Representative Melvin Laird after the floor vote: "Sure it was a tough one, perhaps the toughest we could have picked. But if we'd run from this one, I don't see how we could continue to claim that we really believe...
Died. Otto Struve, 65, astronomer and foremost exponent of the theory that there is life elsewhere in the universe, a White Russian who fled to the U.S. in 1921 to begin a visual study of stellar evolution, became convinced that there are 50 billion planets in the heavens. 2% of which could support life of some sort, and in 1960 led a major but unsuccessful attempt by radio astronomy to pick up intelligible signals from outer space; of a chronic liver ailment; in Berkeley, Calif...
Swallowed Revenues. Of all Egyptians, the industrial worker has fared the best under Nasser. Next to him comes the fellah, the timeless peasant working the timeless land. It was the jest of 1952 that Nasser's foremost ambition was to raise the fellahin at least to the living standard of the gamoosa, the water buffalo of the Nile. He has more than succeeded. You can see it simply in the fellah's clothes. But also the fellah, who used to have meat only once or twice a year, now eats it at least once a week...
...award was announced by Professor Henri I. Marrou, French Historian from the University of Paris. Marrou called Morison the foremost authority on U.S. naval history, and a major contributor to American history from Christopher Columbus to World...
...three representations, and were finally able to follow the speeches almost line by line. Your reviewer had an unfair advantage--the great good luck to have studied the text in Sidgwick's edition under the instruction of Professor Herbert Weir Smyth, one of the living authorities, if not the foremost, on the dramas of Aeschylus. More than one Grecian who has been thoroughly immersed in a study of the Agamemnon has later testified that it was a major experience of his life...