Word: stiffest
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Next Friday, the thinclads take their string of victories to treacherous Van Courtland Park in New York City for the Heptagonals, where their stiffest competition should come from Cornell...
...eligible to apply for parole in the year 2002, after serving only 25 years. New York's penal law, like many other state penalty statutes, provides for parole eligibility after a prisoner has served his minimum term, or, in cases which carry several sentences, after the single stiffest minimum has been served. The law was designed in 1965 to give courts and parole boards the capability of being lenient. But it also raises, at least remotely, the possibility that a deranged killer like Berkowitz could some day be returned to the streets. His case gives new ammunition to proponents...
Harvard has the third-stiffest admissions criteria in the country, following only Amherst College and Brown. It's 17-per-cent acceptance rate requires a lot of cutting in the admissions committee...
...most feared hit men in the Chicago Mafia. Police suspect that Aleman was involved in 22 murders, including one in which the victim was ripped three times through the neck with a broomstick. But none of Aleman's 20 previous arrests were for murder, and the stiffest sentence he had ever received was a three-year probation in 1971 for falsifying a mortgage application...
...going to need nine good matches to win tomorrow," Lundy said yesterday. And then 18 more after that, if the racquetmen are to stand up to their stiffest challenge of the year...