Word: matchlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were winning 19 out of 22, including the last eleven in a row. After a listless sojourn in third place, Yogi Berra's pinstriped legions sniffed the green stuff and snapped to attention. So lame that his teammates winced every time he hit the ball, Mickey Mantle, that matchless pro, was still batting .303, with 33 homers and 102 R.B.I.s. Catcher Elston Howard went on a sudden streak, hitting safely in twelve straight games, and Roger Maris perked up remarkably (five homers in the last nine games) when he read that "Yankee sources" were hinting at a trade...
...travels that brought him close to the world's leaders he sent back confidential reports which delighted his editorial colleagues with their vividness and clarity. His most frequent function at Time Inc. was to shoulder the most difficult publishing problems and to soothe outside critics as a matchless corporate ambassador...
Faulkner was first of all a social historian of matchless accuracy and sweep in capturing the detail of the way life in the Deep South was, and often still is, for whites and Negroes, rednecks and aristocrats, farmers and townspeople. He was also a raconteur of hallucinatory splendor and sudden mirth. But primarily, Faulkner chronicled and explicated the mind and conscience-and something deeper than conscience or even consciousness-of the white Southerner. In effect, his exploration was an exploration of himself. This is one of the most difficult things to do honestly, and one of the most significant...
...outset of the investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren made clear that the panel was not to be a prosecuting agency. The seven members of the commission have matchless reputations for integrity; no one doubted that their examination of the evidence and interviewing of witnesses would be completely fair. Nevertheless it was true, as the Warren Commission conceded in a statement last week, that Oswald never consulted a lawyer before he was shot. Said the commission: "That there was reasonable cause to believe he was the assassin is unquestioned...
Then, as now, matchless hordes of photographers lend their skills to the beautification of these pages. Then, as now, aggressive organization men increase their own and the CRIMSON'S solvency by shrewd dealing with local entrepreneurs...