Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week John McClellan returned routinely to his office from a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Administrative Assistant Ralph L. Matthews was on the telephone talking long distance to Arkansas state police. After hanging up, Matthews led McClellan into the Senates private office. Said he: "This is the hardest thing I ever had to do, Senator, [pause] Jimmy is dead." McClellan blinked. "You mean my Jimmy?" Matthews nodded, filled in details. Onetime Army Pilot Jimmy McClellan, 30, a proficient light-plane flyer, was taking an examination for a multi-engine pilot's license, had at his CAA examiner...
...South's fight to knock the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People out of business in Dixie, one of the hardest punches was a $100,000 contempt-of-court fine levied in 1956 against the Alabama N.A.A.C.P. Offense: refusing to obey a court order to hand over membership lists as evidence in the state government's still pending suit to bar the N.A.A.C.P. from operating in Alabama. Turning over the lists, protested the N.A.A.C.P., would expose members to harassment...
...most striking feature of this production is a complete stylistic consistency, which is the hardest virtue to achieve in a period piece like this. Surely this is partly due to the fact that most of the cast have been playing together now for several seasons, and have developed a sort of repertory-company feeling of ensemble. With one exception, every member of the cast down to the tripping maid (Moira Wylie '60) and whirlwind butler (Robert Jordan '59) capture the proper unified style in both word and gesture...
...Carlos Garcia found his softest spot among the hardest hearts of all Washington, i.e., Washington's press corps, when in the week of Sherman Adams' troubles, he offered a timely ad-lib reply to a question at a National Press Club luncheon about why bribetaking and influence peddling were so widespread back home (TIME, April 21). Said Carlos Garcia deadpan: "That [corruption] exists in the Philippines I shall not deny. I do not believe there is any head of government anywhere in the world-this country not excepted-who can stand before you and affirm truthfully that...
Appliance dealers run the range from the hardest sort of sell (southern California in particular) to the attitude expressed by a Manhattan salesman: "I wouldn't sell a color set to my worst enemy. They're just too much trouble for what they cost and what they deliver...