Word: greatests
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...BEARD is a prime example of why Japan's Akira Kurosawa is counted as one of the world's greatest film makers. He transforms a rather ordinary story about the spiritual growth of a young doctor into a vast epic executed with thematic brilliance and stylistic perfection...
...were political opponents, they were "comrades in arms. And I cannot forget his services to his country and to Western civilization." Many others, like Truman, chose to remember Eisenhower not as the 34th President, whose stewardship may long be disputed, but as the "soldier of peace" who led the greatest alliance of armies the world has ever seen, or will likely see again...
They soon experienced a tragedy that was to stay with them always. Four years later, at Camp Meade in Maryland, their first son, Doud Dwight ("Icky"), 3, died of scarlet fever. "This was the greatest disappointment and disaster in my life," Eisenhower wrote in 1967, "the one I have never been able to forget completely. Today when I think of it, even now as I write of it, the keenness of our loss comes back to me as fresh and as terrible as it was in that long dark day soon after Christmas, 1920." At Abilene, the bodies of father...
...weekend of golf, New England has three courses that rank among the best in the nation. First is the Equinox in Manchester, Vermont, the greatest of New England's mountain courses. It's part of the Equinox Hotel, a comfortable spot to spend the weekend...
...Harvard grinds on. Excellence by association. Harvard is the greatest university (any foreign student will tell you that). I am at Harvard. I am great Syllogism. Don't bother me with Harvard's relationship with Cambridge, or rent control, or Mather House, or Harvard's investments in South America. Don't bother me with the fact that no one's ever seen Pusey. After all, Columbia can't happen here. Harvard isn't run by businessmen but by academics. We're proud of that...