Word: heaviest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pulled out of the village. But instead of fading into the landscape, they were reinforced by a third 500-man battalion, making it the Viet Cong's first regimental-size operation. Then the Communists stood and fought half a dozen battles that blazed for five days, inflicting the heaviest government casualties of any engagement-some 200 dead and wounded. The Reds suffered a similar toll...
...Joseph Timothy O'Callahan, 58, Jesuit priest aboard the carrier U.S.S. Franklin when it was set afire by Kamikaze pilots off Japan on March 19, 1945, who gave last rites, organized rescue parties, carried ammunition from blistering magazines, helped make it back to port with the heaviest casualty list in U.S. naval history (432 dead, 1,000 wounded), winner of the only Congressional Medal of Honor ever awarded to a chaplain; of a ruptured aorta; in Worcester, Mass...
...carries to bed with him the world's heaviest burden of responsibilities, Lyndon Baines Johnson, needs no drowsy syrups to help him get to sleep-and he often gets only five hours a night. Adman David Ogilvy takes a nightly dose of "a little yellow sleeping pill" which, his doctor assures him, is not habit-forming, and he falls asleep easily on his right side. Actress Julie Harris finds that a long run in an exacting role makes it progressively harder to sleep, sometimes reads aloud to herself for half an hour or more, then falls fast asleep with...
Nearly one hundred schools from across the country will attend the tournament, but representation will be heaviest among Western and Southern schools. Texas University, Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, Northwestern University, will be among the school's present...
...Government attempt to limit overtime would meet fierce opposition from management. Many companies prefer to schedule overtime rather than train someone new, because experienced hands give them better work and save them the expense of added fringe benefits for a new employee. The industries with some of the heaviest overtime are autos, where workers spend 5.4 extra hours a week in the plant, cement (6.6 hr.), grain mill products (7.3 hr.), and paper (5.6 hr.). Thus, even with overtime, few workers work more than a 46-hour week...