Word: greatest
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...week the Nobel Prize committee chose Coverman Beadle and his partner Edward L. Tatum to share 1958's award for Medicine (see SCIENCE). The other half of the award went to Dr. Joshua Lederberg, 33, whom TIME'S story singled out as "probably the world's greatest young geneticist...
...greatest Congressional victory since Roosevelt's 1936 triumph, the Democrats effectively broke the power of the Republican party in the Midwest and the Far West. Capturing almost two-thirds of each House of Congress, the Democrats made the United States into a legislative one-party country for the next two years...
...great California Republican defeat, coupled with the complete victory of Nelson Rockefeller in New York, poses the greatest threat vice-president Nixon has faced in his aspiration to the Presidency...
...only area in which the Republicans retained a semblance of their voting strength was in the industrial Northeast. In addition to their greatest victory, New York, the Republicans retained Senate seats in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Vermont...
...Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. Russia's greatest living poet has written Russia's greatest novel since the Revolution...