Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Perhaps hardest on the Prince was his obligation to provide his house with an heir, for he was not the marrying kind. He eventually chose his 20-year-old cousin, Donna Maria d'Avalos, a girl of "surprising beauty," and even more surprising reputation: her first husband had reportedly died from trying to appease her insatiable sexual appetite. In due course, she presented Don Carlo with two children, but Gesualdo lost interest in his wife, and she fixed hers on a handsome nobleman...
...line of attack which the Democrats mean to push hardest is that the Old Guard of the Republican Party took over in San Francisco to insure that Richard M. Nixon again would be Vice President and their skillful agent at the center of government in the four years to come...
Some of the hardest-hitting kid-glove campaigns have been waged on small budgets. Among the most influential ads of the past decade, thanks to Baron George Wrangell of the black eye patch, have been the Hathaway Shirt series; for a modest $300,000 in four years, Hathaway boosted sales more than 65%. Other companies have used sophisticated advertising to transform a product's personality. Since Philip Morris Inc. decided to turn ladylike Marlboro into a "heman" cigarette, its ads have centered on a succession of tattooed male smokers; the brand has in less than a year...
Soil-bank payments will begin in September or October, and they will pour into the hardest-hit areas in the pivotal Midwestern states; e.g., Iowa stands to get about $39 million, Nebraska some $32 million. Certainly the Republicans would have been in trouble without the soil bank, but with it these normally Republican states seem likely to stay that way. Most farmers like the idea of the soil bank; they clearly identify it with the Eisenhower Administration. They believe it is good for the land, good for income, and the first hopeful attack they have yet seen on the haunting...
North Carolina (36) : Thirty-two for Stevenson, one for Harriman, one for Symington, 1½ undecided-and the hardest-dying one-half vote in the convention for Estes Kefauver...