Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Taylor's people realize that their behavior is circumscribed by customs, often the very ones they cherish most and work hardest to preserve. They also sense that they should not be too content with their restrictions; they want to understand more than their experience allows. In Promise of Rain, a father recognizes the moment when his youngest son, almost grown and increasingly remote, finds the path his life will follow: "I was 50, but I had just discovered what it means to see the world through another man's eyes. It is a discovery you are lucky to make...
...annual focus of attention among housing officials, the allocation formula is based on a tricky combination of past trends, current space, and guesswork. The latter, not surprisingly, is the hardest part, basically a prediction of how many students in a particular House will decide to take a leave the following year. When those doing the guessing miss the mark--even by a small number--the already crowded Houses suffer. A few years ago, North House got squeezed. This year, Mather got crunched...
...individuals, international charities and governments have begun pouring food and other supplies into Ethiopia at record levels. Typical is the case of Mohammed Idriss, 60, and his family of eight. Their home village is in Tigre (pop. 4 million to 5 million), where drought and famine have struck the hardest. The house they left sits on a hill overlooking one of the Ethiopian government's largest refugee camps and emergency feeding centers. Almost from his doorstep, Idriss could see trucks and aircraft ferrying in some of the thousands of tons of foreign relief supplies that are now flowing into...
Many Chinese fear that as a result, the costs of such basic items as rice and clothes will skyrocket. Hardest hit would be the country's 80 million urban workers, who still have less opportunity for earning extra money than the peasants. "That's all the Chinese talk about now," said a British teacher working at a major Peking university. Premier Zhao last week dismissed rumors of impending price rises as "street gossip," but the fact that the government has not revealed how and when the price strategy will go into effect only makes consumers more nervous...
...best players hold abiding interest for everyone. There is endless dispute over which pitcher threw the hardest; Lefty Grove, Walter Johnson. Bob Feller, and Joe Wood are the leading candidates. Babe Ruth stories abound. The Bambino had "a heart as big as a watermelon, and made of pure gold." He also had a rather large appetite: "He'd stop along the road when we were traveling and order a half dozen hot dogs and as many bottles of soda pop, stuff them in one after the other, give a few big belches, and then roar,'ok boys...