Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This experiment in close living has lasted 600 days so far. The first 500 were the hardest; they are now increasingly pleasant." The meals, the weather, the prisoners' health, the social life, reported Halsema, were all pretty dandy. "Camp food is exotic," he wrote, "and we're used to it: rice, all you can eat, stew with some meat, native vegetables, occasional tropical fruit." For fun, said Halsema, there was always bridge, poker, pinochle, chess, handicrafts, and a weekly entertainment. "Fortunately there is plenty of work. . . . Work is satisfying. . . . There's a big crew on the hill...
Paramushiro to the Solomons. Eyes fixed hardest on the Marshalls, Tokyo looked nervously around her whole Pacific frontier. Simultaneously with the Marshalls attack bombers struck at Wake 750 miles to the north and on the edge of the Jap's mid-Pacific system. Navy bombers had struck twice at Paramushiro in the Kuril Islands. In New Guinea, U.S. and Australian troops were closing a trap around one Jap force while bombers at tacked the coastal base of Madang. U.S. troops on New Britain had widened their beachhead and Douglas MacArthur's planes steadily attacked the Admiralty Islands, through...
...even "I Got Rhythm"). After all, anybody can turn on the radio and get "Mares Eat Oats" or "Sunday, Monday and Always." Or you can dance to "Paper Doll" from juke joint to $1.50 cover without any trouble (aside from $.90 for a week highball). But it's the hardest thing in the world to find any place that will serve you. "Tin Roof Blues,' "Original Dixieland One Step," and "Fidgety-Feet," especially with chummy program notes...
...Pulkovo Hills and south Oranienbaum, the Germans fought their hardest: their trenches were deep, mine fields vast, artillery plentiful. Now little was left of these defenses, and the snowy road across the hills was blotched with dark, ragged craters. Over the rear German positions, pounded by Russian bombers, black ack-ack puffs spotted the milky...
Steelheads are the hardest of all trout to catch. Some fishermen spend a good part of three winters wading hip-deep in streams, shivering in day-long chilling rain, before landing their first one. But of all the joys of fishing, few compare with the thrill of hooking one of the fighting, silvery fish. Last week thousands of Oregon and Washington fishermen braved gasoline, tackle and whiskey shortages to try their cold-reddened hands at steel-heading...