Word: strongest
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Still, says Rusk, we need more "pointless talk" at the highest levels of diplomacy. Out of such seemingly aimless moments come feelings that at first are formless but can change the world some day just as surely as the strongest armies. Something could start this week. Stranger things have happened at lunch in the White House...
...SOLDIER'S STORY leaves one with ambivalent feelings; upon further reflection, the disturbing issues the film raises become magnified in complexity, rather than simpler and clearer in our understanding. This in itself is an important contribution of the film, and its strongest recommendation. The resulting moral ambiguity is somewhat unsettling for audiences accustomed to having their movie ethics etched in laser beams...
Shannon has been among the strongest opponents to Reaganomics in the House, resisting the flow of Democrats votes to the Republican side in the passage of Reagan's 1981 budget and massive three-year tax cut. Voting in Congress, of course, is more than the pulling of a lever, and we think Shannon, an instant protegee of Speaker of the House Rep. Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill (D-Cambridge), will prove that he is more than a litmus-test liberal...
OFFENSIVE TACKLE (2)--The strongest, biggest and most experienced player on the team plays at right tackle, and you can bet that on fourth and inches senior Roger Caron will be the man clearing the hole. At 6-ft., 5-in., 270 lbs., Caron represents a mammoth obstacle for opposing defenses. The Norwell, Mass. native beach presses more than 400 pounds. A first-team All-Ivy and Honorable Mention Division I-AA All-America, he has a great shot at the pros. The left side of the ball is a different story. Junior George Kostakos leads the race...
Margaret Poulteney, .a young widow secure in her handsome inheritance, spoke for others in her situation as well as herself when she voiced the ultimate declaration of independence: "None in the world can call me to account for my actions." But even the strongest women tended to preface their shows of strength by confessing themselves the "weaker vessel." Perpetual acknowledgment of her own fragility, Fraser writes ruefully, "was one way . . . in which a clever woman could avoid disapproval...