Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fame. He has won two Grammy Awards and has had an audience with the Pope. When the phone rings in his office in Augusta, Ga., a receptionist crisply answers, "Godfather of Soul." But the boss can't come to the phone right now. James Brown, the self- styled Hardest-Working Man in Show Business, is 70 miles away in South Carolina's State Park Correctional Center, serving a six-year sentence...
...going to be one of the hardest games for us mentally and physically," Lind said. "They're not going to hand us the Ivy Championships on a silver platter...
Despite the cold front's ferocity, there were few casualties. In the places that were hardest hit, people were cautious. Martha Hirt of Fairbanks kept her seven school-age children indoors. "They're miserable because they can't play outside," she said. "We're trying to entertain ourselves by watching videos...
Despite pleas for calm from his widow Coretta Scott King, blacks throughout urban America turned to violence. "When white America killed Dr. King, she declared war," said radical Stokely Carmichael. The nation's cities -- at least 125 in 28 states -- caught fire. Washington, Chicago, Baltimore and Kansas City, were hardest hit. More than 65,000 federal troops were required to quell the disorders, which raged for a week...
...affectionate farewell from the nation and from the White House staff, such a graceful and rancorless transfer of authority and such pageantry unmarred by national turmoil or brutal winter weather. It was a class act from the President and his lady, in its own way one of the hardest things the two old troupers ever...