Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mindanao, southernmost Philippine island, U.S. troops captured the Valencia airstrips in the center of the island, and made them ready for fighters of the Thirteenth Air Force. But in southern Mindanao, Americans had one of the hardest actions of the campaign. Cabled TIME Correspondent William Gray...
...loss of Roll, while severe in itself, was not the hardest blow to the Crimson, Polhemus, rowing in his place, turned a creditable performance. It was, however, the disruption of the crew of eight that had worked together since restart of the season and had perfected smooth style, that emphasized Roll's absence...
...first, on Friday morning, stocks slipped. Then the utility stocks, hardest hit of all by New Deal reforms, began to climb. The rest of the market scrambled after them. At the end of the 1,800,000-share day, busiest in weeks, the utilities were at 29.25, a seven years' peak...
...least one revealing clue. This is no accident: every murderer, however brutal, seems to be driven by an unconscious compulsion to betray himself, to punish himself for his crime. The more cautious he is, the more certain he is to make a misstep; some criminologists say that the hardest murder to solve is a completely impulsive...
...Reims Cathedral, one of the hardest hit of World War I and rebuilt with the help of the Rockefellers in the 1920s and '30s, undamaged...