Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feels the force of their folklore and their spirit. An African woman she sees in a Paris supermarket, with "eyes so beautiful they burned the lashes around them," haunts Jadine for months when she spits at her with disdain. The spirits of the past strike hardest with the discovery of an untamed, uneducated filthy young man named Son who has been hiding in the Street's house for days. At first he is an ugly rastaman, a "nigger in the woodpile" whose lack of breeding and cleanliness offend her and the rest of the family. All except Valerian, who invites...
Gaines admits that he doesn't enjoy the rigorous training necessary for world-class competition--swimming five hours a day, 20 miles a week. "If an average bystander compared our regimen to any other sport he'd say swimming was the hardest to train...
...calling Eddie easy going does not mean that he lacks intensity--the elder Reese brother runs what has been called "the hardest dry-land program in the country." In addition to free weights, nautilus work, stretching and running. Eddie is renowned for devising several demanding and unique exercises every year...
...been swept away." Though a cleanup is well under way, tens of thousands of Chinese are still living in makeshift tar-paper shacks, and millions are getting by on a starvation diet of about 14 oz. of coarse grains daily. Nearly a quarter of the preschool children in the hardest hit area have contracted such water-borne diseases as hepatitis, dysentery and schistosomiasis...
...development." With these words, spoken before the standing committee of China's National People's Congress Feb. 28, Vice Premier Yao Yilin described a watershed decision by the country's economic planners. Specifically, Yao announced a drastic 13% cutback of the 1981 budget; capital construction, the hardest-hit sector, would be chopped almost in half. Peking, it appeared, was scrapping much of the philosophy behind the ambitious Four Modernizations* development campaign launched with great fanfare three years...