Word: strongest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France, the beleaguered Communists tried a desperate show of defiant strength. They ordered their strongest instrument-the Confédération Générate du Travail, whose 1,000,000-plus membership makes it the dominant power of French labor, to pull a nationwide, one-day strike. "Let us unite to stop fascism," they cried, meaning by fascism the resistance of all Hungarians to the Russian tanks. Last week the walkout came. It was a colossal and embarrassing flop. In the Paris area not a single bus, subway or trolley ground to a halt...
Since that time, this writer has become a senior at Harvard, while Loucks is now quarterback at Yale. But time might well have stood still these four years. The Yale team which will face Harvard tomorrow is not undefeated, but is the strongest Eli team since 1946 when Yale had a 7-1-1 record, including 30-2 and 27-14 defeats of Princeton and Harvard. Harvard, if it loses, will have completed its worst season since...
Recent reports have indicated that Kerr, Dean McGeorge Bundy, and Charles W. Cole, President of Amherst College, are the strongest possibilities as successor to Dodds, when he retires next June...
...diplomatic boomerangs: 1) the U.S. snub in April 1955 of Communist China's offer to negotiate disagreements that were leading the two nations toward war; 2) the on-again, off-again shipment of 18 U.S. tanks to Saudi Arabia last winter in the midst of Israel's strongest plea for U.S. arms...
...dramatic broadcast to both sides of the Iron Curtain, Pope Pius XII condemned the "illegal and brutal repression" and declared that Christians have "a moral obligation to try all permissible means in order that the dignity and freedom of the Hungarian people be restored." In one of the strongest statements of his pontificate, his voice trembling with emotion, he urged free people to "close their ranks as fast as possible and link in a solid public pact all those governments and people which want the world to proceed on the path of the honor and the dignity of the children...