Word: hardest
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Cairo's news output was slowed by snarled communications and muffled by censorship. And, with its airfields under British bombardment, the Egyptian capital was also the hardest place for a correspondent to get to. None made it last week, though some were trying by way of Khartoum and Libya. By commercial plane and chartered flight, 50 correspondents streamed into Tel Aviv. But Israel refused to accredit any foreigners to its forces, gave out the news in meager communiques. Newsmen tried to drive to the front in taxicabs, but the roads were closely guarded, and few made it. Yet they...
Naturally, steel was hardest hit by the 35-day strike. Youngstown Sheet & Tube's earnings dropped to $3,381,000 in the '56 third quarter from $11,240,677 a year ago, while Crucible Steel's net tumbled from $2,752,293 to $510,226. Nevertheless, Crucible's net for the first nine months stood at $8,597,020, only a little less than last year's, and Youngstown's three-quarters figure totaled $24,904,000 v. $29,247,179 last year. Last week, as autos, freight cars, tankers, schools and heavy construction...
...also called on the council to endorse the 18-nations London conference demand for international control of the canal, a demand that Egypt had rejected often and emphatically, and Russia as well. "A beginning has been made," Lloyd told the council. "The hard problems lie ahead." The hardest problem was right on hand-both Fawzi and Russia's Dmitry Shepilov balked at reviving the point of international control. There was little more to be said, so just before midnight the council came to the vote. Nine delegates voted for all the Anglo-French resolution, but Shepilov, with Yugoslavia...
...fact that the tone is incredibly pompous (Aaron is good, but is he so good that he can afford to be pompous?) and that the prose often has a quality which could most adequately be described as best read before dinner. ("The 'soul' of the actor is the hardest thing to find.") Then, too, one wonders whether the piece is educational in intent, or perhaps a defense before the fact...
Crowding in around J.D.R. Jr., exacerbating his public and private problems, came the pressures and problems of his time. Across the U.S. a tornado was roaring up against the robber barons, concentrating hardest and legitimately against the father, whipping fitfully at the son in cruel, sharp gusts. Day by day the muckrakers mocked J.D.R. Jr.'s 30? lunches, his marriage to Abby Aldrich (CROESUS CAPTURED), his regular talks to the men's Bible class of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. "With his hereditary grip on a nation's pocketbook," sneered the Pittsburgh Press, "his talks on spiritual...