Word: straightest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...factor, finally developed an ink so potent that many a horny-handed Somali ballot stuffer came down with a skin rash. That took care of most repeaters. Despite scattered reports of overenthusiastic balloting, not to mention a slight riot (13 dead, 20 hurt), Somalia's election was the straightest in its young history-and one of the freest in all Africa. All but final results announced last week gave the ruling, middle-road Somali Youth League of Premier Ab-dirashid Ali Shermarke 68 of 123 seats in the unicameral National Assembly...
...picture. But I don't care if I make money. All I care about is making a movie I believe in. It's a picture about life, about the inability of people to live-not to survive, but to live. It's probably the straightest picture about human beings ever made...
...sales-whether he earns a profit or not. Chrysler ran $5,400,000 in the red last year, still had to pay $31 million in local and state taxes-and rumbled that it might move elsewhere. When Ford located a new Falcon plant in Ohio, Williams put on his straightest face and complained that the company was depriving Michiganders of jobs. This year the Republicans' most effective campaign document is a list of 40 key companies-from ACF Industries to Philco-that have left Michigan. In the past decade, the number of manufacturing jobs in Michigan dropped from...
...sight, among the towering pines up on KT-22 Mountain, lay a short stretch of snow that was to prove the burial ground of the U.S.'s fondest hopes for its high-rated women skiers. Even to the casual eye, the setting was sinister enough: the steepest, straightest schuss on the course dived toward a hard-packed bump, which tossed the skier into the air just as she hit a 90° left turn dubbed "Airplane Turn...