Word: stiffest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stiffest ruling of his 15-year watch, lame-duck Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn last week suspended four admitted drug offenders for one year: Star Outfielder Willie Wilson, First Baseman Willie Aikens and recently released Utility Man Jerry Martin, all of whom played last season for the Kansas City Royals, and Los Angeles Dodgers Relief Pitcher Steve Howe. The first three have pleaded guilty to attempting to possess cocaine (Wilson and Martin have begun serving the unsuspended three-month portion of their one-year prison terms), and Howe has been in and out of several drug-treatment programs under the aegis...
...jury deliberated for a week before handing down the stiffest punishment yet against the Red Brigades: 32 defendants were given life sentences; the others received prison terms ranging from four months to 30 years (Italy has no death penalty). Among those sentenced to life in prison were Mario Moretti, 36, who masterminded the kidnaping of Moro, and Prospero Gallinari, 33, who shot the Prime Minister with a pistol, then sprayed his body with a submachine...
...those southern latitudes where no land mass breaks the force of the winds and waves can crest at 120 ft. The sailors must also cross the doldrums of the middle Atlantic, with its sudden dangerous squalls and alternate dead calms. The vast emptiness of the Pacific will provide the stiffest psychological test. "This sailor does it all," adds Roos. "He navigates his boat, he handles the sails, he cooks. He's got to be able to sew sails and make repairs." The race was to have included two women, but they had to drop out for lack of financial...
...colonel, who got his rank in the Congo, drew the stiffest sentence. His fellow raiders were given from six months to five years, and the judge later reduced most to six months. Hoare and his co-defendants were clearly the lucky ones. Last month four of Hoare's soldiers of fortune who were left behind in the Seychelles were convicted of treason by René's government. They are under sentence of death by hanging...
Because of the Eli's troubles, Harvard's stiffest competition for the EIBL crown should come from Navy and Cornell. The Midshipmen return with almost their entire 1981 team intact, a squad which finished only a game behind the Elis in the league...