Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mistake." Connally "moved in" less than three years later. Why did he switch parties? He says he had become uncomfortable with high-spending Democratic policies and soaring national debt. He reminds Republicans that Watergate had already started when he joined the G.O.P. Says he: "I joined you in the greatest depths of the fortunes of this party, when the party was down, so I can't be accused of opportunism." He sometimes adds a footnote, that if lifelong Republicanism is a litmus test, then Reagan, who was a Democrat until 1962, must also be disqualified. 3) The White House tapes...
Everywhere, Carter turned the trip into a revivalist gathering down by the riverside. The standard line, which never failed to win roars of approval: "How many of you believe we live in the greatest nation on earth? . . . If you will help me, we can make the greatest nation on earth even greater...
...term f/64 designates the smallest lens opening on cameras then used, the one that gave the greatest depth of focus and hence produced images that were sharp from foreground to background. To these photographers, f/64 also stood for "straight" photography, as against pictorialist fuzz. Instead of continuous tone, they went for high contrast. They also cropped and isolated their subjects: driftwood, seashells, worn rocks at Point Lobos, or the polished interior of Weston's Mexican toilet bowl...
...many doctors are unconvinced by the blitz. The Medical Letter, a highly regarded bulletin for physicians, notes that in one published study of 66 obese patients, the greatest weight loss was achieved not by anyone on PPA but by someone who had been given a placebo. Says Letter Consulting Editor Dr. Martin Rizack: "If somebody really wants to lose weight, you can give them almost anything and probably get an effect...
...secrets in 1972, and the U.S. did the same in stages completed in 1975. Authors promptly went lurching after never-told-before stories. A notable example came out last month with a most unwieldy title: Ultra Goes to War: The First Account of World War II's Greatest Secret Based on Official Documents. The secret: how the Allies did and did not use intercepted German coded information...