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Word: hardest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lived in a cheerless, timeless, maddening limbo. They were occasionally moved from prison to prison. Nielsen was court-martialed, condemned to death, reprieved. That, at least, was exciting. Otherwise, there had been nothing to do. nothing to read, no mail, no Red Cross packages. Said Nielsen: "Nothing is the hardest thing in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Hardest Thing Is Nothing | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

...expects to speed up OCS still more. If Japan quits soon the rate will have to reach $4 billion a month; if V-J day does not come for a year, only $3 billion. Both of these settlement goals are so close in sight that Bob Hinckley considers the hardest part of his job done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSITION: Bulldozer at Work | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

...cases, compared with 462 in the same week last year. ¶ Texas led all other states in this year's total of polio cases (357). Hardest hit was Harris County (which includes Houston), which in one week in June reported 19 new cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Report | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

...Hardest hit by a recent rash of parties (on the week ends, naturally) have been our married brethren, whose role of gentlemen in waiting, for you wife to escape such well-known Ali Babas as Joe Neil, "Terrible Tom" Mullen, and smooth-talking J. F. Stonewall Smith...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 7/19/1945 | See Source »

...Hardest pill for the Congress party to swallow was the clause in the Wavell Plan (TIME, May 21) fixing equal representation for Moslems and caste Hindus in the new Executive Council. Congress preferred organizational parity with the Moslem League; otherwise, it argued, its many Moslem members (e.g., President Azad) would have to look to the League instead of to Congress for representation. But Moslem League President Mohamed Ali Jinnah liked the parity plan as proposed, made no comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Road to Simla | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

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