Word: hungriest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unlike many other varsity sports at Harvard, hockey is characterized by superb coaching and an aggressive winning attitude. "That Cleary is the hungriest bastard I've ever seen," Hughes says. "He wants to win so bad he'd get out there himself if he could." Speedster Purdy adds, "All three coaches are super. They won't bench you for one mistake, but help you and give you confidence...
Exorbitant oil prices also reduce food production; the hungriest nations find it ever harder to pay for petroleum-based fertilizers. These same nations are strapped for money to buy imported food because they have to spend so much of their scant foreign exchange just to buy oil. Yet the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is unperturbed. The OPEC cartel shows no disposition to cut prices significantly...
...power-hungriest Presidents were Teddy Roosevelt (registering 8.3 power images in every thousand words), John F. Kennedy (8.3), Harry Truman (7.3) and Lyndon B. Johnson (6.8). In need for achievement, Nixon led the list with an 8.5 rating, well ahead of Johnson (7.5), Kennedy (6.8) and Teddy Roosevelt (6.2). Despite his reputation as a forceful President, Franklin D. Roosevelt does not stand remarkably high in either category: 5.2 in achievement need, 6.3 in need for power...