Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Houghton Mifflin; $15.95), Arthur Geisert's suite of copper etchings follows siblings with curly tails and mischievous minds as they construct a wolfproof tree house by the letters. En route, the illustrator-author ingeniously employs words that describe his book (eerie, ideal, spectacular) and performs the hardest task in children's literature: enlightening with surprises...
Last week Brazil's two leading unions tried to mount a major protest against Sarney's program, calling for a 24-hour general strike. Union officials argued that workers were hit the hardest by Sarney's reforms, but the public seemed to disagree. According to the government, only about 10% of Brazil's 20 million salaried workers walked off their jobs. The President felt vindicated. Said he: "Never has Brazil had a government that is so democratic or so identified with helping the poor...
...hardest tasks for an actor is living up to a title like "the next Jimmy Stewart" or "the next Kate Hepburn." Such comparisons are flattering, of course, but they put the actor in a bind. When one is trying to create one's own individual piece of dramatic history, it is discouraging to be thought of as aping someone else, especially if that someone else is an unmatchable figure in his own right...
...regime. Individualistic and intractable, they would have to be torn from their bit of private land and either tamed by force or annihilated. Stalin's first target was the kulaks, caricatured as rich, greedy and brutal farmers who lived off the labor of others. Actually, they were the hardest working and the most productive of the peasants. The wealth of the average kulak family consisted of one to three cows and ten to 25 acres of land. Nevertheless, beginning in 1929, more than 13 million of them were "dekulakized," meaning deported, imprisoned or executed...
...before Thanksgiving. We'd all had a hard week--maybe the hardest in the last six years. What a crisis for the Presidency, for the people...for our nation. I was tired. A four-day weekend loomed ahead: where better to spend it than in Santa Barbara, by my President's side...