Word: hardest
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...remembered as one of the most dramatic in Wimbledon history. In the fifth set neither man was able to break the other's serve until Borg did so in the 14th game for an 8-6 victory and a record fifth consecutive Wimbledon title. "It was my hardest and best championship," he said after the match. And then he promised to be back next year...
...like that of Romulus and Remus; it occurred in the bright morning sun of the Enlightenment, with a generation of astonishingly literate men in attendance. From a distance of 100 years, Henry Adams, normally a man of elegant bitterness, looked back at that primal national moment: "Stripped for the hardest work, every muscle firm and elastic, every ounce of brain ready for use, and not a trace of superfluous flesh on his nervous and supple body, the American stood in the world a new order...
...Louis, which was owed less than $500,000, received telephone calls or visits from Steven Miller, Chrysler's assistant treasurer, John McGillicuddy, chairman of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. and Treasury Secretary Miller. It quickly capitulated. Rockford's American National Bank and Trust, which was considered the hardest sell, received an anonymous bomb threat. It soon agreed...
Ayer has pushed hardest the latest Madison Avenue advertising trend: stressing a community experience. For AT&T this became the "reach out and touch someone" campaign, which portrays the world's largest company bringing family and friends together via long distance. The Army commercials emphasize "join the people who've joined the Army," and the message of 7 Up is that "America is turning 7 Up." So successful has the big agency been that Competitor McCabe pays it the ultimate compliment: "Ayer is like a creative little agency...
Cambridge has been wrestling with its budgetary dilemmas all spring; hardest hit was the School Department, which, despite a budget almost $3 million larger than last year, will still have to fire dozens of its staffers...