Word: greatest
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...perhaps the greatest Tory asset was Harold Macmillan himself and the general post war image of his party which he has helped to create in the public mind. This is the image of a united, progressive, responsible party which can maintain Britain's role abroad and bring prosperity without state control at home. By retaining much nationalization and by extending most of the welfare state the Conservatives have stolen many of Labor's robes. By denationalizing less suitable industries and by reducing taxes and state controls, they have retained their traditional right-wing support...
Such mass whimsy, of course, might augur poorly for the future of the shaky democracy in Brazil. The victory of the rhinoceros "represents a phenomenon of the greatest sociological importance," one Brazilian sociologist said. "We are on the threshold of revolt." One hopes that if revolt does come, it will continue in as good humored a fashion...
...Hsinhuaese. Currently embarked on an ambitious expansion program, Hsinhua is concentrating its greatest effort among the nations wravering between East and West. Purveying its free service, not only to the press but to government departments, foreign embassies, important business firms and even individuals, Hsinhua is making a hard pitch in the struggle for the allegiance of undecided nations...
...Staph. aureus, are rampant. As Boston's Dr. Carl Waldemar Walter told the surgeons: "These drugs kill the sissies among the bacteria and leave the toughs." Philadelphia's Dr. Robert I. Wise reported a nationwide eruption of "hot" staph strains since 1950. Doctors and nurses are the greatest menace: in some areas, 67% of them are healthy carriers of hot staph, as against 30% of their patients. By contrast, the rate among people who have had what Dr. Walter called "no close contact with the health industry" is trifling...
...Thomas Eakins, by Fairfield Porter, views the greatest of American masters through a reducing glass, calls him "outside of his time, because his intuition was hindsight," and yet is a consistently brilliant and fascinating offbeat analysis...