Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into such opposition from the locals that, by 1954, he had to abandon the attempt at reform and winning employer's respect through controlling an honest union. But he succeeded, nevertheless in gaining a sort of grudging admiration even from those employers with whom he drove the hardest bargain, admiration which has been increased along the same lines by Hoffa. Admitting that his contracts are so favorable to the unions as to be piratical to the owners, they nevertheless grant, "When Jimmy Hoffa says something, you know he means it. If he says his boys won't strike, they...
...that he is one of the most skillful novelists writing in English. He is also a successful physician who knows what few physicians and equally few novelists seem to recognize: that each man's nature is a separate case, that human nature can itself be the hardest ailment to cure...
...Year of the Dog in the production of everything from steel to sesame seeds, and given all their own hard work, mainland China's hard-pressed masses had every reason to expect to be eating higher on the hog. Instead, they are living through some of the hardest times since Mao Tse-tung took power in Peking...
...effort to repudiate journalism's reputation as the hardest drinking profession, lagers will be drawn...
...Hardest testing point of this principle of law: the U.S. stand against its friends, when it opposed the British-French-Israeli Suez invasion in November 1956. "The invading forces were withdrawn. Tolerable solutions were found through peaceful means." Had the U.S. tolerated the rule of force by its friends at Suez, "the whole peace effort represented by the U.N. would have collapsed . . . While it is premature to say that the Suez affair marks a decisive historical turning point, it may so prove...