Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vietnamese war that illustrated both the strength of a democratic society and the frustration of searching for clear answers to elusive problems. From it all, one sobering message emerged: although the war in Viet Nam is going well in many respects, some of the most decisive battles -and hardest decisions-still lie ahead...
...rosters, it is called the 2nd Battalion of the 7th Cavalry of the 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) Division. But to Viet Nam veterans who keep up on their casualty rates, it is the "hard-luck" battalion. And the hardest-luck platoon in the hard-luck battalion is the 3rd Platoon of A Company. Last January all of its men were killed when their C-123 crashed near An Khe before Operation Masher. Last week the unlucky 3rd got it again...
...rose 40%, and hordes of favela dwellers began getting up hours early to walk to work. Since Castello Branco took over, the price of meat has gone up from 400 cruzeiros per kilo to 1,900, black beans from 180 to 950, rice from 100 to 560. Hardest to take of all, many Brazilians of late can no longer even afford their traditional daily flow of cafèzinhos, or tiny cups of black coffee, which are up from 10 cruzeiros...
...months, overall prices as much as 130%. Announcing a basic overhaul of the economy, Ky devalued the piastre by nearly half, loosened import restrictions to create more price-cutting competition, raised the salaries of military and government workers from 20% to 30%. They are the people who have been hardest hit by the inflation, and the people who matter most in the severe fighting of the war and instituting pacification reforms...
...complain: "They're not playing VASSS. It's not my system at all." He was nowhere nearly as upset as Pancho Gonzales was when Gonzales discovered that he was required to serve from the 3-ft. line-thereby taking the steam out of his serve, the hardest in the game. Gonzales blew his first-round match to Chilean Luis Ayala, 21-18, then blew his top. He challenged heckling spectators to put their muscles where their mouths were, stormed over to Wally Dill, director of the pro tour, and snarled: "I hope you're satisfied...