Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hardest hit are the forwards, amongst whom Geoff Locke (concusion), Phillip Monnot (sprained ankle), and Alastair Rellie (chest separation) were added to the injury list against Dartmouth. golf course. Reider moved past Morrison with a mile to go, opened up a ten-yard lead, and held it to the finish...
...head of household who finds himself, soon after payday, with $365 in overdue bills and $165 in the family checking account. Said Ike, when asked what cuttable spots he might find in next year's budget: "If you could tell me that, I would have one of my hardest problems solved, because every single department of Government, most of them pleading the responsibilities placed upon them by law. want more money. They quote rising prices...
Failure at the Top. In the middle, between repairman and customer, are the manufacturers and big utilities, whose sales and reputations suffer with each new breakdown or complaint. Repairs is one of their major problems, and they are the ones who are working hardest to solve it. Says Judson Sayre, president of the Norge Division of Borg-Warner Corp., waving a letter from a Cleveland housewife: "Look at this stack of repair bills she enclosed. I don't blame that woman one bit. She's unhappy. I'd be unhappy too. It's a failure...
...Outlook. Meanwhile, the disease spread across the U.S. without consistent geographical pattern: the outbreaks were like separate, spontaneous grass fires. Perhaps because of crowded living conditions, Negroes in the South seemed especially susceptible. Climate made no difference. One of the states hardest hit, after bottomland Mississippi (with 100,000 cases), was mile-high Colorado, where health officers saw no hope of checking the flu's ravages before 10% of the population has had it. In all the U.S. only 16 deaths were so far attributed to complications of the disease (mostly pneumonia...
There the night fog wisps early along the creek valley, and the silence is broken only by the howl of timber wolves. There Orval Faubus, prematurely born and weighing only 4 Ibs., "growed like a weed" in the hardest of all soil. There Orval learned about politics from his father, "Uncle Sam" Faubus, a sort of mountain Populist. Last week in the Ozark woods, Uncle Sam, crippled from arthritis but still scratching a living from his hillside farm, mused on his son's fame. "Little Orval," said J. Sam Faubus, "he was different to most boys. Kids like...