Word: foremost
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...fast to point of slippery,” Grant said. “I didn’t have really good practices going into it. That was definitely the foremost thought in my mind—just being able to stay on balance and deliver the throw. That had never been a concern of mine before, so it kind of turned all of my thoughts off competition-wise...
...families of victims consider Shanksville first and foremost a mass grave. When they speak of the site's future, some invoke Arlington or Gettysburg; others want their own private place to mourn. But to most, a memorial conveys a measure of finality that is still too much to bear. "The shock keeps me living in perpetual rawness," says Kimi Beaven, whose husband Alan perished on Flight 93. "As much as I would love to put my heart and mind around my husband's final resting place, I would far rather just let it be the peaceful place that...
...model for Arabs to follow is Peace Now, an organization founded by Israeli reserve officers in 1978. With branches in the U.S., Canada and Europe, it is the foremost Jewish peace organization. It organized massive protests throughout the 1980s and 1990s that influenced Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000. Even Israel’s Labor party under former prime ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak eventually adopted many of its views. In response to the current conflict, Peace Now advocates a withdrawal from the occupied territories, a two-state solution and an end to violence...
...passion that has outlasted his little-boy-brief days. Angell, a film concentrator within the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, is the biggest He-Man and She-Ra fan at Harvard (or at least the most public supporter of the series) and, according to him, one of the foremost experts in the world...
...that sale’s true significance. For, blinded by Ruth’s towering home runs, the Sox brass have never truly understood that it is pitching that wins championships. Ruth’s offensive contribution to the Red Sox was surely important, but he was, first and foremost, a pitcher. And it is a dearth of quality pitching that has hurt the team in recent years...