Word: heaviest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard fact was that the atmosphere of fear was heaviest around the box office. Most of the cinemoguls were scared stiff by what they thought was the average moviegoer's indignation over Communism in Hollywood, as spotlighted by Parnell Thomas' committee. In Hollywood there was fear of further movie retrenchments; last week Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer slashed its payroll by 40% and other studios were firing hundreds of carpenters, electricians and eyebrow-pencilers...
...United Nations were supposed to do all the talking about politics. UNESCO was to concern itself with culture. But last week in Mexico City, at UNESCO's second world conference, delegates wrangled heatedly over the politics of culture. Under heaviest fire were the culture and politics...
Died. Baroness Orczy (Mrs. Montague Barstow), 82, champagne-and-swordplay novelist whose foppish, daredevil hero, "The Scarlet Pimpernel," first appeared in 1905, reappeared in twelve subsequent novels and one book of short stories, was the heaviest single contributor to her fame (and a Riviera villa); in London...
...began to go. They spread out over four major routes. The smallest contingent, about 15%, usually heads down the Atlantic flyway bound for Chesapeake Bay and the Carolina swamps, and get shot at by the smallest percentage of hunters (only 14%). About 25% take the Mississippi Valley, where the heaviest concentration of gunners (almost half the nation's 2,000,000-odd duck hunters) wait for them. The heaviest duck traffic (33%) is found on the central flyway-over the Dakotas and Oklahoma to Texas...
Fordham is through with football's big time, said its president, the Rev. Robert I. Gannon. It will still play intercollegiate games, but "does not want ever again a football team rated among the nation's ten heaviest. It doesn't do us any good financially, scholastically, socially or athletically," Father Gannon said. "We are not interested in providing business for the gambling fraternity and we are not interested in the sports writers . . . the tyrants of tyrants. We are interested in staging contests for our students, the alumni, friends and those on the subway circuit who cross...