Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only the opening round in what seems likely to be a yearlong battle over the budget, but Ronald Reagan threw his hardest knockdown punch. The President called reporters and cameramen into the Oval Office to witness his veto of a bill that would have extended about $2 billion in additional federal loan guarantees to debt-burdened farmers. Said Reagan: "Someone must stand up to those who say, 'Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want.' " Moreover, he pledged, "I will veto again and again until spending...
...start of their flight, but X-ray lasers are among the least penetrating. They could hit missiles only at the top of the boost phase, and probably would be best used for post-boost or mid-course interception. But that is when the warheads (no longer missiles) are hardest to find because they are hidden amid swarms of decoys...
...forms turned anxious and flickering, as though snatched from the very throat of darkness. But by then, this confusion had acquired its own expressive integrity as the handwriting of a painter more and more possessed by death. Caravaggio's sense of mortality was the thing his imitators found hardest to copy. But this did not stop the spread of Caravaggism. Within a decade of his death his followers had diffused his message all over Europe: Caracciolo and Ribera in Naples, Georges de La Tour and Valentin de Boulogne in France, Seghers and Honthorst in The Netherlands, and dozens of others...
Back to the Yale-Cornell game. They'll probably have to bring extra stretchers to Lynah to carry out all the bodies. The Elis and the Red are the two hardest hitting (read: dirtiest) teams in the East and in the wake of the 9-8 affair, no quarter will be asked--and none given...
...women's hockey player is probably the hardest woman athlete to accept," Dooley said. "The image is so untraditionally feminine...