Word: greatest
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There are those who consider the current Montreal team the greatest ever in hockey, superior to the Boston Bruins of the '30s or the Detroit Red Wings, who won seven straight championships in the late '40s and early '50s. Last week Les Canadiens won three straight to pull far ahead of the second-place Red Wings...
...eyes and a mop of black hair cuddles the puck to his stick, nurses it past enemy defenders, skillfully fakes the goalie out of position and flicks the rubber disk into the cage. Shouts of "Rocket, Rocket" fill the air in delirious tribute to Joseph Henri Maurice Richard, the greatest player in modern hockey history...
...Cain Organization, a Dallas public relations outfit, let it be known that he had whipped up the whole furor as a plug for a client's television show. The Gift of the Magi, a musical version of the sentimental, enduring O. Henry Christmas story. Said successful Pressagent McKenzie: "Greatest thing I ever...
...Consumer. The greatest single force in keeping the recession local-and then turning it around-was the monied U.S. consumer, the same man who, as investor, sent Wall Street's Bull to the moon. By old-fashioned doctrine, recession is a time when consumers cut down their spending. In 1958 the confident U.S. consumer continued to buy, and then some. He became the economic hero of the year-and demonstrated several other facets of the new economy...
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. The book without a country that honors all humanity, including Russia, though its rulers kept their country's greatest living poet from accepting the Nobel Prize...