Word: heaviest
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Handicapping is no job for a sensitive man. Owners complain bitterly about "unfair" weights, but Trotter shrugs off such criticism with the impassivity of a baseball umpire. Fortnight ago, when he assigned 136 lbs.-heaviest handicap of his career-to the speedy, four-year-old gelding, Kelso, in the $112,800 Brooklyn Handicap, Trotter said calmly: "I expect complaints." None came-although Kelso had to spurt from behind to eke out a narrow, 1¼-length victory. "He's one of the great ones," said Handicapper Trotter after the race. "No question about it." Then Trotter added: "Of course...
Into Seoul last week bounced retired U.S. General James A. Van Fleet, 69, breaking diplomatic china with every step. Van Fleet, who was U.N. commander during the heaviest fighting of the Korean war, is a bit of a hero to every South Korean, and often called "the father of the ROK army." Invited to Korea by the junta, Van Fleet briskly put his seal of approval on the generals' coup d'etat against democratically elected Premier John Chang. "The finest thing that has happened to Korea in a thousand years," declared Van Fleet...
...about Laos, was sufficiently impressed by the paper to be annoyed about it. "You will not find a crack in the Sino-Soviet alliance any more than you will find one in a duck's egg," he told a French reporter. But he could not resist adding: "The heaviest Soviet satellite weighs four tons. China is too heavy to become a satellite.'' A Polish Communist source insisted that the Deutscher paper was "technically false," but conceded in the next breath that it nevertheless reflected the state of Moscow-Peking relations "with 90% accuracy...
...temple, then drive shafts and tunnels around and under it. In this way, they will construct bit by bit an enormously strong, roughly cubical caisson of reinforced concrete to enclose the temple. The great box with its contents will weigh something like 300,000 tons, will probably be the heaviest weight ever lifted...
...position to betray British agents working behind the Iron Curtain. Lord Parker took only 53 minutes to reach his decision. Blake's disloyalty, he commented, "rendered much of this country's efforts completely useless." He then sentenced him to 42 years in prison, the heaviest term handed out by any British court for espionage during peacetime in this century...