Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hardest fought games of the season, Standish came from behind on Wednesday to unseat the ex-league leaders, Lowell, by the close score of 35 to 34. This game, marked by the steady uphill fight of the Freshmen, throws the Intramural competition wide open, with a chance for any of the top teams to cop the laurels...
Virginibus Puerisque. It was a fair enough start, but the hardest work lay ahead. Members of the Wehrmacht who had changed into civilian clothes had to be rounded up. Somehow, the children would have to be re-educated. Then there was the problem of sifting out the Nazis. Later, the problem of a Nazi underground might also arise...
...Nations officials who are figuring how to feed Europe's starving millions and how to stretch the world's limited supply of shipping know it well. The Southern Hemisphere has had a five-months' drought and its two chief food-producing countries, Argentina and Australia, are hardest...
...knew better than Berliners that Berlin would need all this and more. The Red Army's Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, though striking hard, had yet to launch his hardest blows. South of Berlin, Marshal Ivan S. Konev's forces smashed from Oder bases toward the Czechoslovakian border. North of Berlin, Zhukov drove for the old Baltic port of Stettin, tried to tear loose this anchor of the Oder River line...
...huge cloud of yellow dust rising over Motoyama Airfield No. 1. The dust was lifted by big U.S. transport planes landing from Saipan. The Americans were putting to use what they had come to Iwo to get, and the incoming planes were tokens of the approaching end of the hardest amphibious campaign in the Pacific. Iwo Jima was not yet secure, but for practical purposes the ugly, sulfurous, mean little island was theirs...