Word: heaviest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Communists' heaviest blow fell on about 1,000 West Berliners who own businesses-shops, garages, etc. -in East Berlin. One morning, when the owners arrived to open up. they found themselves locked out, their businesses confiscated. "People's Property." read the notices on the doors...
...chorus of one of Andre Chariot's revues, understudied Bea trice Lillie, and married a director named Francis Gordon-Howley. During World War I, Gertrude, though both ill and pregnant, took over in Bea's place and stopped the show. In the midst of one of the heaviest Zeppelin raids of the war, she was rushed from the theater for the premature birth of her daughter, Pamela...
...some 15,000 fans who turned out for the $87,637 Hambletonian did not agree with Bi Shively's figuring. They made Sharp Note their third choice, bet heaviest on Coca-Cola Heir Walter T. Candler's three-year-old Duke of Lullwater, and on Hit Song, owned by the Arden Homestead Stable and Lawrence B. Sheppard...
...bringing pressure on the enemy, inflicting more casualties and damage than he can take." Van Fleet sent his soldiers in to capture "Old Baldy," a tactical hill on the west Korean front which has changed hands several times in the past month. But the week's heaviest blow was delivered by the Air Force...
...heaviest fire against the government's plan came, surprisingly, from its own benches. Canadian-born Conservative Beverly Baxter, who is also theater critic for the London Evening Standard, revealed that he was "fortunate" enough to visit the U.S. every winter, and he warned that horrific tales about American TV are not exaggerated: "To sit over there through a three-or four-hour sponsored program is to come under a terrorization of mass suggestion of advertising. I mean this seriously. The American girl, for example, is supposed to be the finest of her kind in the world. She is supposed...