Word: heaviest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ceiling. The tonnage norms particularly piqued Khrushchev's peasant common sense. Machine builders used eight-inch plates when four-inch plates would easily have done the job. "We make the heaviest machines in the world," sighed Nikita. His choice complaint, however, had to do with a Moscow chandelier factory: the more tons of chandeliers the plant produced, the more workers earned in bonuses. The chandeliers grew heavier and heavier, until they started pulling ceilings down. They fulfilled the plan, admitted Khrushchev angrily, "but who needs this plan? To whom does it give light...
...ring: a problem child, a moody, monkish man who at 21 became the youngest heavyweight champion ever, without even becoming a real heavyweight. Floyd weighed 182¼; lbs. when he knocked out Archie Moore in 1956; for last week's fight he weighed 197¼ lbs., the heaviest of his career-and the bulge of fat around his middle was obvious. He had also been taking ultrasonic treatments for a sore knuckle on his left hand. But in the first round he bloodied Chuvalo's nose; in the second, he unleashed a series of six straight combination punches...
...average nightclub carouser, having come to see some skin, finds himself involved in a subtle spoof, and there are a few moments when he cannot be absolutely sure that he himself is not being mocked. Significantly, the heaviest and most grateful applause of the evening is given to Rao, an Indian girl whose whole act consists of clever finger shadows of animals and images of Khrushchev, Nehru and De Gaulle...
...mortars, isolated on a nearby commanding hill. In a bitter three-day fight, the Reds virtually wiped out Anlao's 100 defenders. The attackers finally withdrew before air power and 1,000 counterattacking government troops, but there was concern over the capture of Anlao's guns-heaviest mortars the Reds have seized to date...
Giant Squeeze. No major country is ready to slam the door on U.S. businessmen, but the welcome is cooling most rapidly where recent American in vestments have been heaviest. As the flood of dollars shows no sign of receding, European businessmen are increasingly worried about being squeezed out by U.S. corporate giants, which have such a high scale of financing, research and marketing. In West Germany, where U.S. business has a $2 billion stake and General Motors' Opel has become a formidable competitor of Volkswagen German industrialists are beginning to pressure the government to do something. While Italy still...