Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...changed! . . . It seems that all Moscow-graceful, light, majestic and solemn, rises over the world, gleaming with the inviting light of ruby stars. Great emotion floods the heart -emotion of great pride for the Motherland, for the Soviet people, for the creative labor inspired by the genius of that greatest and dearest man, Comrade Stalin...
...trousers leaves his home in Paris' Latin Quarter, crosses the Seine and heads for Père-Lachaise Cemetery. For hours he strolls among the dead marshals, statesmen and courtiers of the dead Napoleonic Empire; he never fails to pause before the tombstone of the Comtesse de Girardin, the greatest beauty of the Little Corporal's court. Jean Auguste Louis Armand Fèvre, by profession a dealer in rare books, by appearance a bourgeois gentleman of Napoleon's day, has chosen to live in the past...
...dingy, one-room flat on the Rue Bonaparte, oil lamps and candles light up the empire fauteuils, the portraits of Napoleon and the etchings of Napoleon's greatest battles. Fèvre has never ridden in the subway or a bus; he steadfastly refuses to switch on an electric light or read a daily paper. "What men call progress," he says bitterly, "is nothing but a sham. Transportation has improved, but noble sentiments become rarer...
...previous start, Webb shut out New Prep on two hits for seven innings without walking a single opponent. Pitching, and above all control, has been the freshmen's greatest asset thus far this season...
This week, for the sixth time in his eleven seasons with the Yankees, the big guy would be out of the line-up on opening day. But this time it was no mere strained tendon. As far as baseball was concerned, Joe DiMaggio, one of the greatest outfielders and money hitters in history, was in critical condition...