Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with unsurpassed gusto, letting the lines pour forth in torrents and saying things in several ways instead of choosing the best. The result was a ripsnorting melodrama that offered Elizabethas what horror movies provide us today. Richard III lacks the subtlety, artistry and development that we see in his nearest relatives, Macbeth and logo. And the whole play moves straightforwardly, putting few difficulties in our way except for a confusing genealogy...
...higher-priced Oldsmobiles; the giant auto company settled by agreeing to pay $34 million to customers. Last fall, after he decided to run for the G.O.P. nomination for the Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Adlai Stevenson, Scott had a 4-to-l lead in the polls over his nearest G.O.P. rival...
...results to date have been bullish. Merrill Lynch maintains its traditional dominance in selling stocks and bonds, and is three times as large as its nearest competitor, E.F. Hutton. In addition, the firm last year took in twice as much from its other financial operations ($1.4 billion) as from its securities-trading business ($642 million). In the first half of 1980 alone, it earned $100.8 million, almost as much...
These horses will have a host of stable-boys, in the form of delegates and media types who will predictably pander to their every need, all the while carrying out a self-fabricated race of their own, for the big "scoop" or the nearest urinal. They will wear buttons extolling their favorite horse--or the only horse, as the case...
...look in his eye that had disappeared by the time of the famous World War I I WANT YOU recruiting poster. The look is conniving, raw and whip-mean, the squint-shrewd eye of a man with a rope who is about a week's ride from the nearest law court...