Word: stiffest
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Peter Huntsmen's lightweight eight will probably face the stiffest challenge of the morning from a very experienced Terrier shell which outsplashed the 'Cliffe lights last year by a substantial margin...
While sentences of up to 25 years could have been given by Sirica, the terms of 2% to eight years were the stiffest yet accorded anyone who participated in the scandal, except for the actual Watergate burglars. The sentences preclude any parole before the 2½ years are served, although all four will have the right to seek a reduction in sentence. Such motions by some of the confessed conspirators who testified against the four, including John Dean, Jeb Stuart Magruder and Herbert Kalmbach, led to their early release by Sirica. But he is not expected to feel similar sympathy...
...loyalty should count at all in considering the sentences, it should be loyalty to basic principles of justice and not to any particular egomaniac. That Sirica's sentences were some of the stiffest in the entire Watergate nexus of crime and corruption attests to the gravity of this particular trial and its consequences. Enough of Watergate has already been obfuscated and forgotten for four of its most active participants to be mildly scolded and sent off to resume high social, if not powerful, positions in American society again...
...stiffest competition for the Harvard troops will come from the Tigers, who have clawed their way to a perfect 8-0 record this season. The Princeton thinclads are looking to become the first undefeated track squad in the school's history...
...Cadets should provide the thinclads with their stiffest opposition of the season in today's meet. They, too, post a 2-0 slate, having finished first in a tri-meet last weekend with Connecticut and Colgate...