Word: heaviest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quarter-million former Nationalist troops, trained in combat. Because of their competence, they have drawn the heaviest Red countermeasures; only two years ago their total...
...single scale that could weigh her, so the staff moved two scales together and had her stand with one foot on each. Even this effort was ineffective. Both scales hit the 300 Ibs. maximum. The doctors decided that she probably weighed about 620 Ibs., which might make her the heaviest woman on record...
...recent decades, the heaviest concentration of girls has been in the shadowy, shuttered Barrio Coloón, in the heart of the city. A quarter-century ago, one Minister of the Interior tried to clean up the district; he rounded up the hundreds of Frenchwomen who then monopolized the Barrio Coloón and shipped them back to Europe. The only practical result was that a horde of grateful native operators moved in. Last week another Minister of the Interior, husky Lomberto Díaz, 40, was getting better results...
...Havre de Grace, the late Sam Riddle used to say, that Man o' War ran his greatest race. That was in 1920, when Riddle's Big Red, carrying the heaviest weight he had ever been made to carry (138 Ibs.), ran away with the Potomac Handicap in his usual styleand set a new track record for the mile-and-a-sixteenth while he was about it. Man o' War was in his heyday that year, and so was Havre de Grace. Halfway between Philadelphia and Washington, "the Graw"* drew crowds from 100 miles or more...
...Mont, one of the oldest of the four TV networks, concentrates its heaviest fire on the youngest televiewers. Each weekday evening it tries to blanket the bubble-gum trade with Small Fry Club (6 p.m., E.S.T.), for three-to seven-year-olds; with Magic Cottage (6:30 p.m.), for the eight-to-twelve set; and with enormously successful Captain Video (7 p.m.), aimed at teenagers...