Word: shortest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Terriers lost their season opener to UMass, 82 to 70, so they're out for blood. The Redmen, by the way, aren't exactly patsies; the shortest man on their front line stands...
...used to be that the Christmas season began at Thanksgiving-but it seems to be getting earlier every year. This year, Thanksgiving is late, and there are only 22 shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the shortest span that can occur in the six-year cycle. Last week, with Thanksgiving still a good fortnight away, many of the nation's stores began breaking out in Christmas lights and decorations, advertising Christmas sales and scheduling extra late-shopping nights...
...although it now seems unlikely that a bill will be approved this session, it would be folly for the administration to give up trying to pass the strongest possible measure in the shortest possible time. And though he seems to have mishandled his relations with the Judiciary Committee, the President is right to insist that the strong subcommittee bill be watered down...
Through it all, the gals decided that the Miss America contestant who was nicest was Jeanne Flinn Swanner, 19, Miss North Carolina. So they elected her Miss Congeniality. She was also the tallest (6 ft. 2 in.); the contest's shortest contestants, Melissa Stafford Hetzel, 21, Miss Vermont, and Flora Jo Chandonnet, 20, Miss Florida (both 5 ft. 3 in.) came barely to her shoulder. But friendliness and size don't win contests. So when the judges brought in their verdict, medium-sized (5 ft. 61 in.), well-deployed (35-23-35), not-quite-so-congenial Donna Axum...
...Europe is catching up with-and sometimes passing-the U.S. when it comes to vacations and holidays. Italians now take off an average 36 days per year, and the Germans 33. Though the British work shorter hours, their 18 days of vacation and holidays per year is the shortest vacation period in Europe. The U.S. does not always provide a model for others to imitate. The Italians, for example, steadfastly oppose an American eight-hour work day; they complain that it would give them only an hour or so for lunch instead of the traditional three-hour midday siesta...