Word: roughest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vulnerable with the press when questions cannot be directly answered because of national security considerations. Watergate memories are all too fresh, and national security was the excuse to hide numerous illegal activities in the Nixon White House. But there are occasions when national security should be legitimately invoked. "My roughest moments involve intelligence matters," says Powell. "There is no way to prove yourself. The situation is made for discord and distrust. It costs me more in terms of my credibility than any other situation. It all boils down to: Trust me, folks...
...saturated the Western European market, and the rate of growth has been leveling off. Now, in an expansionary effort, the company has decided on a bold gamble: beginning in early summer, Perrier will try to crack the U.S. Thus it will take on the world's richest and roughest soft-drink market, which is dominated by such giants as Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Seven-Up, not to mention scores of home-grown mineral-water bottlers...
...roughest winter that anyone can remember since nineteen-and-eighteen," observed Newspaper Editor Mary Ann Oakley in Providence, Ky., a coal-mining town (pop. 4,270) numbed by temperatures down to -20°. As ice and snow made the winding roads impassable, the children have been able to attend school only three days this month. When the town's water supply was blocked by a frozen valve, the National Guard trucked in water to the fire station, where residents lined up with jugs for their 2-gal. rations. In their mutual need, the townspeople found a new spirit...
...said, had just told angry consumers to phone complaints directly to the President, and the switchboard was jammed. The guy was Herbert S. Denenberg, 46, lawyer, author (seven books), former college professor, hell-raising former Pennsylvania insurance commissioner (TIME, July 10, 1972), and currently one of the funniest, roughest consumer-affairs reporters ever to read fine print on a label...
McCartney's roughest critic over the years was also his best friend. "He sounds like Engelbert Humperdink," said John Lennon of McCartney's first solo efforts. Later, in Lennon's remarkable album Imagine, he put it directly to Paul in How Do You Sleep?, a fierce song full of anger and injury...