Word: heaviest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before General Eisenhower took off from Paris for the U.S., the New York Times's Washington bureau chief, Arthur Krock, had an inside prediction for his readers. "The American people may as well brace themselves for the heaviest deluge yet of dope stories about [Eisenhower's] political intentions and future," he wrote. "Nor will there be lacking the 'inside story' with details and quotes to force the conclusion that the narrator was under the bed all the time...
...heaves his heaviest boulders at the old argument that Christian moral values can be maintained by the individual outside of any organized religion. "The experience of worship is something different in community from what it is in solitude . . . To say that one adheres to Christian values, and then to refuse to have any share in the institution that has preserved those values, and that today is struggling to make them ever more real among men, is hypocrisy indeed . . .We shall always need the free soul, the adventurer . . . his flashes of personal inspiration. But the greater the service he renders...
...York Curb Exchange, few stocks have scooted up faster and higher in a year than Molybdenum Corp., a little company with a new find of rare minerals (TIME, Oct. 15). One of the heaviest buyers was Broker Ted Sterling of Toronto's Watt & Watt brokerage house, who spread the word among his customers that the stock looked good. As the customers and other buyers in the U.S. and Canada climbed aboard the gravy train, "Moly" soared from $13.50 to $80.50 a share...
...madness is connected with the moon's phases ("lunacy") may have had something in it after all: a Virginia psychiatrist and a Washington astronomer found that of 2,875 women admitted to a state hospital, the greatest number entered at full moon; among 2,984 men, admissions were heaviest right after the new moon. Just what did the moon have to do with it? The two scientists didn't begin to know: they just had their figures...
...center and east, Communist counterattacks were fierce and frequent, forced temporary U.N. pullbacks. But U.N. artillery did not let the Reds get very far. "Bloody Ridge," occupied last fortnight after heavy fighting, was still in U.S. hands. At new bloody ridges, Red assaults were met by the heaviest U.N. barrage in six weeks...