Word: strongest
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...strongest Roman Catholic presidential hopeful since Alfred E. Smith, Massachusetts' Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy well knew that the issue of religion might hurt him in 1960 as it hurt "the Happy Warrior" in 1928. Consequently, out of a shrewd sense of political necessity, Candidate Kennedy provoked discussion of his Catholicism months ago, got accustomed to facing blunt questions with plain answers, and managed to run his fleet-footed political race with remarkably little religious heckling. But last week Kennedy found himself caught in a Catholic-Protestant clerical crossfire on the incendiary issue of birth control. And before the week...
Danner's younger brother Bill, a 6ft., 5 in., 200 lb. sophomore, will open at center if his sprained ankle is sufficiently healed. Bill Danner is the squad's strongest rebounder, using his bulk authoritatively, and he has improved his scoring touch considerably...
...Deceptive Gloss." From the often lackadaisical FCC came the strongest pronouncement to date. Said FCC Chairman John C. Doerfer: "A failure to distinguish between the freedom to express . . . ideas and the indiscriminate hawking of wares . . . has brought the advertising and broadcasting industries to the brink of strict Government controls...
...strongest Christian influences in Africa is a 50-year-old Zulu with a pencil-line mustache and horn-rimmed spectacles who has a knack of persuading criminals to turn in their weapons-and often themselves. Wearing a dark business suit, the Rev. Nicholas Bhengu stands on a packing-case platform and says quietly in Zulu: "Ubugekengu abukhokheli lutho [Crime does not pay]."* There is a movement in the crowd, especially among the young toughs in ducktail haircuts, dungarees and safari jackets. "Nike-lani izikhali zenu nani ku Nkulunkulu [Surrender your arms and yourself to God]," he continues, and a pile...
...committee strongly favored the historical method of teaching geography, an approach which is the strongest in the English universities but seems to have found little favor in the United States. Maas explained that the historical approach would give the Harvard department a "unique" position in this country; could draw on the strength of other departments here (History, Economics); and would reinforce the integrity of geographical research, which some feel is being jeopardized by extreme and perhaps invalid outgrowths...