Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Afterward, Soviet Grand Master Yuri Averbakh, Petrosian's trainer, explained that "Tigran's spirit was completely broken after the sixth game. Anyway, it is impossible to win a world title when you are over 40. Spassky is 34 and will demand the maximum from Fischer...
...Russia, where chess is not only the national pastime but a symbol of Soviet culture, the maximum will also be demanded of Spassky. Since the championship play-offs were first instituted in 1948, the Russians have had a monopoly on the title. Indeed, no Westerner has ever even made it to the finals and the Bobby v. Boris encounter is already being heralded as the match of the decade-if not the century...
...they once participated continues--in California, where on the basis of the testimony of 25 witnesses (all of whom were guards) a Marin County grand jury has indicted seven San Questin cons for conspiracy in the killings of the five dead whites--in New York, where a special ultra-maximum security lock-up has been proposed for "revolutionary" inmates--and in Boston, where Malik Hakim, a-k-a Albert Bradford, awaits what may well be his final exit...
...said, "I think he wants to be President, but he doesn't think he's indispensable. He may think he's better than the other candidates being talked of now. Those of us who worked for McCarthy made him into a white knight and made his every failing a maximum sin. I do not understand why the liberals feel so bitter about...
Harvard's varsity soccer team received the maximum score in the balloting for the top ten teams of New England this week. The Crimson was followed at a distance by Wesleyan. Brown, and Tufts in the race for four NCAA District I Playoff berths...