Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...principles that Harold Stassen hammered hardest. "There may be diplomats who do not know it; there may be many political leaders who are afraid to admit it; there may be many people who do not understand it, but the extreme principle of absolute nationalistic sovereignty is of the Middle Ages and it is dead. It died with the airplane, the radio, the rocket and the robomb...
...Face at the Door. The hardest test of U.S. leadership and Pan American unity came last. The issue: Argentina, banned from the Conference at U.S. insistence...
...Hardest 10%. One wonderful factor was in our favor that first day. The weather was fine. A smooth sea enabled us to get more troops ashore and to emplace some artillery. With the rough seas of the second and third days, we might never have accomplished our initial landing. Not all the small boats made the beach that first afternoon, but enough made it to enable us to keep our foothold. By late afternoon we held perhaps 10% of the island-the most dangerous...
From his years on the platform, Teacher Barzun draws one sober conclusion: teaching-properly done-is one of the world's hardest jobs. "An hour [of it] is certainly the equivalent of a whole morning of office work. . . . Sabbatical leaves are provided so you can have your coronary thrombosis off the campus...
...Americans were Bradley, who helped Montgomery lay out the ground tactics, and Walter Bedell ("Beedle") Smith, a bulldog of a man who is perhaps the hardest-working officer in the U.S. Army. It was Beedle Smith who coordinated the entire invasion planning. TIME Correspondent Charles Wertenbaker called him "driving, determined, devoted, and occasionally furious." Eisenhower called him the best chief of staff in the world, and Monty said quite openly that he would like to steal...