Word: strongest
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Columbia, despite losing five starters to graduation and another to injury, will certainly struggle through one of its most challenging campaigns in years. But the Lions will still be the strongest team in the league--they've got depth and a bevy of talent...
Harvard, with only three players lost to graduation, will enjoy, its strongest season in years. And with experience and several outstanding players, the Crimson could come close to winning its first league crown since...
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...
Reagan began the next morning with an "ecumenical prayer breakfast," attended by 17,000 Christian laymen and church leaders, most of them evangelicals. To the delight of his audience, the President delivered his strongest attack ever on opponents of a proposed constitutional amendment that would permit voluntary school prayer. Claiming that the amendment's passage has been blocked by its critics "in the name of tolerance," Reagan asked, "Isn't the real truth that they are intolerant of religion? They refuse to tolerate its importance in our lives." In a debatable assertion that went well beyond the issue...
Mornings from my hotel room, I would watch the city get in gear before sunrise, the office buildings still lit from the night, while chains of cars rolled quickly along the curving highway with their headlights shining. You do feel the confidence. I'll tell you my strongest memory, though. One morning at Market Hall, where the convention had its gift bazaar, a man mistook a glass wall for an open door and crashed straight into it. The window exploded all over him. I held his face to assess the damage, but he got off lucky: shaken up, with...