Word: hardest
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...places where U.S. culture rubs hardest against the Catholic family, says Father Thomas, are these: CJ Sex. "What has happened is the toleration of every form of 'sex-tease' in a society which is incapable of developing uniform norms." Children are not only subjected to constant reminder of the physical aspect of sex, but "society permits intimate and unsupervised relationships between unmarried [youth] of both sexes," during which "they are expected to display a reserve under excitation which their elders would probably be incapable of exercising." The "sex-tease" affects married couples as well, leading them "to regard...
...Only the Hired Hand." Speaking as often as eight times a day, Stevenson bore down hardest on the Eisenhower farm program. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, he said, is "only the hired hand," while President Eisenhower is "the owner, the boss." Added Stevenson, sarcastically: "It is curious that all anyone ever says about the owner is that he ought to be re-elected President of the U.S." The real reason Eisenhower is running again, said Stevenson, is that "he can't afford to retire to the farm at Gettysburg while Benson is Secretary of Agriculture...
...precise moment when the President's press conference broke up, Leonard Wood Hall, chairman of the Republican National Committee, fastened a gold-colored Ike pin on his lapel and made a prediction. "This," he said earnestly, "is going to 'be one of the hardest campaigns we ever fought. Now that Ike has done what he has done, we're all going to have to come up to it by working harder than we ever did before...
...cold wave which had paralyzed southern Europe swept down over the Pyrenees and deposited a blanket of frost which chilled to the bone millions of lightly dressed Spaniards living in unheated homes and, far worse, ruined the crops on hundreds of thousands of olive, almond and citrus trees. Hardest hit was Valencia, where the thermometer registered an all-time low of 16°, and some 400,000 tons of oranges were frozen into balls of ice as they hung on the trees. Surveying the damage last week, Spanish syndicates estimated a loss of $50 million in citrus exports...
...second disappointment was the all-American cast. For once, the Met stage was peopled by young, handsome, slender performers. But their Juilliard-type excellence somehow did not thrill. Baritone Theodor Uppman tried hardest and succeeded best as Papageno, the comical birdman; partly thanks to Ruth and Thomas Martin's competent translation, he put across his role with almost Broadway-like punch. Soprano Lucine Amara (Pamina) sang beautifully, and Roberta Peters (Queen of the Night) did her bell-like best despite a cold. But Tenor Brian Sullivan (Tamino) was dry-voiced and stiff-backed; Basso Jerome Hines, while...