Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yovicsin himself undertook the task of transforming Harvard football. The record of that transformation has been evident all fall. After an initial shock when for various personal reasons some key players left the squad, his team has enjoyed playing for him. He asks only that each player work his hardest, and he in turn works hard for them. Players on the junior varsity were given the opportunity this fall to run regular varsity plays and not to mimic plays of the Crimson's opposition each week...
...flaunt a specter as vigorously as this one has been flaunted without scaring some people. I'm afraid a lot of our problem of inflationary psychology has been of the Government's own making." Even the Federal Reserve Bank, which waved the warning flag hardest, is having some second thoughts. Says a Fed spokesman: "As you look at the economy now, inflation is a state of mind rather than a state of facts...
Though his opponent in the U.S. Senate race is Democratic Congressman Clair Engle, California's outgoing Governor Goodwin J. Knight swings hardest against Fellow Republican William Fife Knowland. To an Oceanside meeting of wire-service editors last fortnight, Goodie argued bitterly that the Knowland-embraced right-to-work proposition on the upcoming ballot is "a non-Republican issue." Then Knight punched his running mate squarely on the jaw: "Since he injected a non-Republican issue into the campaign, I am under no moral or legal obligation to endorse his candidacy. We Republicans frequently have asked Democrats to vote...
Getchell felt that the squad, which has a 3-1 record for the year, met easier competition against Nichols than he had expected. However, the coach pointed out that the Yardlings still face the hardest games of the season, starting with M.I.T. tomorrow...
...been far from futile. It was here that his style and outlook developed as it never had before, and would not again. During his years at Harvard, Wolfe acquired a vast literary background. He read voraciously, eight or ten books a week, even in the periods of his hardest work. Of Widener he wrote: "I wander through the stacks of that great library like some damned soul, never at rest--ever leaping ahead from the pages I read to thoughts of those I want to read." Wolfe possessed an amazing memory, and he was convinced that his tremendous literary background...