Word: harshest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seek greatness with the sweat of our hands and the strength of our spirit. If we fail now, we shall have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith, that freedom asks more than it gives, and that the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored...
...Thant's citation of the Russians by name as debtors brought the harshest criticism of the Secretary-General since he took office in 1962: the reference, they insisted, was "illegal," and his approach "arbitrary and one-sided...
...vice-Presidential nominee had the harshest of words for the conservative wing of the Republican party. He belittled the position that Barry Goldwater's 26 million votes represent an ideological movement. "Any Republican could get 20 million votes, and only about a million this year were really for Goldwater...
...Real Concern." Even Goldwater's harshest critics agreed that he was taking his stand on the basis of conviction, letting the political chips fall where they might. But his vote did demonstrate dramatically just how far he is removed from the mainstream of U.S. and Republican Party thinking...
...troops from Cuba as its price for the treaty, he admitted that even if the Russians complied he would still vote against it. How come, asked one Democrat, when he had said only the week before that such a rider would make the treaty "perfectly acceptable even to its harshest critics"? Well, Barry allowed weakly, he probably was not the treaty's "harshest" critic...