Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Daddy Told Me." Small imperfections can upset Johnson terribly. His Sanka is always hot-but never quite hot enough. His staff, the hardest-working and most efficient on Capitol Hill, may reply to letters from 600 Texas constituents in a single day, leaving only 45 unanswered. Cries Johnson: "There's 45 people who didn't get the service they deserve today." When host at his LBJ Ranch near Johnson City, Texas, he often serves hamburgers cut to the shape of Texas. But an unavoidable symmetrical flaw seems to bother him. "Eat the Panhandle first," he urges his guests...
Competitors charge that M.C.A. does little to build up stars, gets them by raiding other agencies, even has a vice-president in charge of raiding. But moviemakers such as former M-G-M Head Dore Schary say that M.C.A. deserves its success because it works hardest for its clients, constantly plans deals to boost their salaries and its commissions. In 1943 Schary had a dispute with MGM, chucked his job as head of "B" pictures. His own agent advised him to go back to M-G-M because he could not get him another job. But M.C.A...
...word "recession" was rapidly becoming one of the hardest-working polysyllables in the language. A Los Angeles coffee shop advertised 65? "recession specials" (salmon patties, veal cutlet...
...contracts on the company's prices. Said G.E.: "We have abandoned our policy because we have found it inoperable." Within three days, half a dozen other diehard Fair Traders, including Sunbeam Corp., McGraw-Edison Co. (Toastmaster), Ronson Corp., and Schick Inc., followed G.E.'s lead, dealing the hardest blow yet to the list price as a factor in U.S. retailing...
Every year it gets a little harder for the Administration to sell foreign aid to the U.S. Congress-and 1958 threatens to be the hardest year yet. With the demands of Sputnik era defense and of welfare-type spending that cannot be cut, even members of Congress who know perfectly well that foreign aid is really more hardheaded than softhearted may find themselves gripped by an urge to slice away at the only easy victim in town...