Word: littlest
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...Hell," he said one night early on, "it's just like the Alamo, and you damn well needed somebody. Well, by God, I'm going to go and thank the Lord that I've got men who want to go with me, from McNamara right on down to the littlest private who's carrying...
...hero, Doug Flutie has been cast in the role of David trying to lift Goliath. After losing $100 million in its first two years, the league is pinning its latest hopes on the star power of Flutie, Boston College's miracle missile launcher and now New Jersey's , littlest General. But the U.S.F.L. started its third season last week long on pricey players, short on revenues and looking down the barrel of its own decision to take on the towering National Football League with a switch to a fall schedule in 1986. Even so, new U.S.F.L. Commissioner Harry Usher, fresh...
...stood firmly behind its newest and littlest computer. Said Vice President Philip Estridge in April: "Reports of its demise have been greatly exaggerated." Now it seems that Estridge was right. After a quick series of engineering and marketing changes, IBM appears to have turned its loser into a winner. At stores around the U.S., the PCjr is suddenly one of the fastest-selling computers on the shelves, often outperforming cheaper, game-oriented machines like the Atari 800 and the Commodore 64. "This may be an industry first," says Stephen Guty, editor of McGraw-Hill Computer Books. "No product has ever...
...came, the mob rolled up in waves and secured the old farmhouse, as well as surrounding environs. The little granddaughters with their little girls' peanut-shaped bodies gamboled half-naked on the lawn. Scatology being the stock and trade of little boys' humor, the littlest grandsons strategically maneuvered a plastic dog dropping everywhere they thought the thing's disgusting appearance might provoke a rise, giggling as they schemed. For the adults, the kitchen would be the free-fire zone; everyone would take his best shot, the vegetarians would sup alongside the carnivores...
Blatt said that his first objective as president will be to organize a petition of 10,000 signatures in support of Walter Polovchak, a 14-year-old Russian immigrant known as the littlest dissident." He added that he would like to bring William Simon, former Secretary of the Treasury, to Massachusetts for a speaking tour of several campuses some time next year...