Word: stiffest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson lacrosse team that could manage only one Ivy win last season and weathered 1972's graduation at the cost of its mid-field unit, returns this season amid inhospitable predictions of the stiffest Ivy competition in memory...
...pamphlets during Czechoslovakia's elections last fall, informing voters of their constitutional right to cross out names of the government-sponsored slate or not vote at all. Hübl,, who was also accused of making contact with Italian Communists, was given a 61-year sentence, the stiffest meted out in any trial so far. One co-defendant got 20 months, the other, a suspended sentence...
...stiffest sentences of all, as high as five years and nine months, were recently given to three Croats, including one Roman Catholic friar, who were convicted of collaborating with Croatian nationalists abroad. There are probably no more than 1,000 active political agitators among the 235,000 Croats who live and work outside their homeland, principally in labor-short West Germany and Sweden, but those 1,000 manage to stir up more trouble than almost any other nation's migres. They are divided into rival groups, variously espousing antiCommunist, anti-Tito and anti-Serbian views, but sharing a common derivation...
...reform to relieve one of the nation's stiffest property taxes (which encourages poor property maintenance and piecemeal land sales) and to raise new revenues to preserve, maintain and restore land...
...Crimson's most talented wrestlers, Dan Blakinger (10-3) and freshman Carl Biello (9-3-1), are facing the stiffest competition of the meet at 118 and 126. There are no easy preliminaries in these classes, and several close match-ups will determine the Crimson's fortunes...