Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first thing Lemmon learns is that a horse is a treacherous animal-a friend to your face but an enemy to your rear. He also learns to sleep on the bare ground, to catch naps in the saddle, to laugh at the cowboys' jokes-and they laugh hardest when the joke is practical. One day, just for the hell of it, somebody wraps a "prairie eel" around somebody else's neck, and everybody gives the victim the heehaw until the rattlesnake gives him a bite. It is then that the greenhorn learns what a human life is worth...
...Democrats in this campaign jabbing hardest at defense as an issue? Said Adams: "The opposition gyrates, orates and berates in their frenzy to find a remedy to heal up their sores caused by the continuing combat between the Northern and Southern wings. I concede they have their hands full trying to corral implacably opposed Democrats under one political roof. Their political lasso, evidently, is a headlong attack in the area of their most dismal performance...
...than makes up for in hustle and quick reflexes around the cage. His alert play against B.U. was one of the few bright spots for the Crimson in what was otherwise a very drab evening. Vietze should be effective at defense since he has always been one of the hardest checking linemen on the team. He has a good enough shot to be a scoring threat from the blue line...
...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 Saturday opposition each week...
During four days of insistent questioning in Washington last week, Texas Congressman Wright Patman, chairman of the House Small Business Committee, tried his hardest to discover what every U.S. businessman would dearly like to know: What will the Federal Reserve Board do next to ease credit and implement its reduction in rediscount rates...