Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fast as a Race Horse. The flames struck hardest at Bar Harbor, Me. (pop. 4,300), summer playground of the rich and famous on mountainous, timbered Mt. Desert (pronounced dessert) Island. All one day and all through one night, a great fire eccentrically marched and countermarched around the outskirts of the town, while hundreds of soldiers and townspeople fought to control it. In the afternoon, when the shifting wind began to blow a gale from the northwest, the fire crowned into the tops of trees and leaped forward "as fast as a race horse could run," blasting through wooded estates...
Command Decision is hard-hitting theater, full of mailed conflict and scrappy talk. What it hits hardest, however, is all sentimental attitudes toward war, all evasions of how damnable it can be, all attempts to break it up neatly into so many parts hell and so many parts humanitarianism. But there is nothing doctrinaire or diagrammatic about the play. Playwright Haines (himself an Air Forces veteran) writes something that could easily have happened; and his characters are people, not mere points of view...
...about 35 Yardlings who desire to spend the fall at the pastime of association football. "Of course, it's too early to be sure of anything," Guyda said yesterday, "but I think we've got a pretty fair squad with experienced men at most of the positions. But the hardest thing about Freshman teams is to get the players working like a team...
Clement Attlee, opening an educational center as a memorial to oldtime Fabian Socialist Beatrice Webb, hoped aloud that the place would not be full of radio and gramophone music. "One of the hardest things at this time," observed Britain's much-criticized Prime Minister, now deep in hard times, "is to get some quiet to speak...
...know Lee. I was at West Point with him and served with him in the E.T.O. Besides being one of the most capable and the hardest working general I know ... he has character and integrity and an unswerving sense of justice...