Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would think they're talking about the team's hardest playing defenseman. Leading scorers usually aren't followers of the Protestant work ethic...
...hardest hit of all last week were Wall Street's specialist firms, the traders who are charged with maintaining orderly markets. That task requires them to purchase stocks when there are no other buyers and to make sales when other sellers disappear. Until last week, a total of 52 specialist firms worked on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange; each handled the shares of 20 to 30 specified Big Board companies. On Black Monday, the specialists grimly fulfilled their responsibilities, buying millions of shares as prices plunged all around them. Their losses could amount to as much...
...acres have been destroyed, the worst loss of timber since 1910. When one fire is contained, crews are quickly dispatched to other outbreaks. "They are just putting them out by sheer force of will," says Matt Mathes, a spokesman for the U.S. Forest Service in San Francisco. Hardest hit: California, where over 700,000 acres, an area almost the size of Rhode Island, have burned. It's the third severe fire season in a row for the West, where drought conditions are so extreme that bears have been forced down from the mountains to imbibe from residential swimming pools...
...hardest thing about the literary life I think is that it turns out to be less literally than you thought it would be," he said...
...Hardest to swallow is the unrelieved bitterness and rage against men expressed throughout the report's pages. Women and Love so resonates with angry voices that the volume fairly vibrates in one's hand. Charges one of Hite's women: "Every man you meet still tries to hump you every way he can. It's about time we humped them back." Blasts another: "Men think they are so mature, but deep down they are such babies. They expect to be catered to. They whine and complain about everything...