Word: stiffest
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Georgia put up the stiffest opposition to the varsity singles, whipping them 6-0. Rain pre-empted the Crimson retaliation in doubles. "We lost some good close matches under a lot of pressure," assistant coach Fish said yesterday...
...Fred erick Lugard, who was to become Nigeria's first Governor, traveled to an inner principality called Borgu and succeeded in getting two treaties signed in favor of the British Royal Niger Company. As he returned there was a brief skirmish. Lugard reported with the stiffest possible upper lip: "The only casualty in the fighting line was myself, an arrow having penetrated deep into my skull." When he got home, he sustained another grievous wound: the signatures on the treaties were fake...
...enters the Beanpot with a 7-4 mark, the only winning squad in the tourney despite the absence of 6'7" center Mark van Landenham, who is out with a broken ankle. The Huskies' workhorse is 6'2" All-American guard John Clark. Winless B.U. has probably faced the stiffest competition this season. The squad's southern road swing turned into a debacle as Mercer, Citadel, Rollins and Southern Florida successively lashed the Terriers...
...INTERVIEW begins rather inauspiciously, with Orr asking in the stiffest of BBC manners, "Sylvia"--pause--"what started you writing poetry?" But Plath soon takes control of the situation, her conversational voice a little tamer than her reading voice but her imperious, arrogant manner just as fascinating and repellent. She sounds much older than 30 somehow, as if she had reached the last of the nine lives she endows herself with in "Lady Lazarus...
This season City Ballet confronts its stiffest artistic challenge ever. During the last three weekends of May, Hommage a Ravel, a centenary celebration of the French composer's birth, will feature a festival of 16 new ballets against a vast fresco of Ravel music. "In ballet there has to be something new every season," Balanchine explains calmly. "Also, Ravel was a Basque and all the Basques dance." Because the company cannot afford to close down even for a week, the new dances must be created and rehearsed while the company continues to perform the 36 ballets now in repertory...