Word: strongest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sunday afternoon, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra joined the festival with its strongest program in years. Unfortunately, its performance was disappointing. Beethoven's First Symphony, which should be within the Orchestra's scope, never seemed to get off the ground. Although the woodwind and brass sections were unusually strong, the strings were unable to carry their weight; the violins were ragged and the cellos unnecessarily heavy. In a vain effort to keep everyone together, conductor Attilio Poto chose calm and moderate tempi, but these only made the faults more obvious...
Last week Libya's aged King Idris showed himself surprisingly independent of his ambitious neighbor Nasser. Opening the Libyan Parliament, he stressed the "strongest resentment at the aggression of which our sister state, Egypt, has been a victim," and asked for a "review" of Libya's treaty with Britain. But this done, Libya itself bravely stood up to Egypt. The Colonel. Chief provocation was one Colonel Ishmail Sadek, who had turned up in Libya as Egypt's military attache. He proclaimed something called the "Front for the Struggle of the Libyan People," with the announced objective...
Naming Parents. One of the strongest advocates of a tougher policy is Publisher Richard H. Amberg of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Until last December, his paper (circ. 300,375) was as careful as the Post-Dispatch (402,439) not to identify delinquents. Then three 16-year-old boys raped a 14-year-old girl. Amberg not only ran their names but wrote an editorial saying: "We feel that if somebody is old enough to rape a girl, he is old enough to get his name in the paper...
...Hoffman, coach of the United States weightlifting team, accused the five man Olympic jury of being pro-Russian and anti-American. He also claimed the Russians cheated in boxing, wrestling, and weight-lifting by holding back their entry lists until they saw where other teams were entering their strongest men. And just yesterday morning, reports filtered out of Australia to the effect that the Americans won the hammer throw through the use of "psychological warfare...
...last week on the world crisis-responding to the fact that, as the Catholic statement put it, "Once again in our time the alarm bell is ringing in the night." Both statements were remarkably similar in content. Both offered a powerful endorsement of the United Nations− certainly the strongest yet given by the Catholic Church in the U.S.-and in consequence they also provided a powerful moral boost to the crucial work of U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold (see FOREIGN NEWS). Both statements also contained support for President Eisenhower's handling of the crisis...