Word: strongest
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...strongest suspicion, though, is that Hunter is partial not so much to the Ramseys as to their lawyers. Boulder, for all its academic eminence as the site of a University of Colorado campus and its reputation as a refuge for dropouts, is very much a small town where "all the lawyers are friends," says a retired judge. The Ramseys' legal team is headed by Hal Haddon--and if Hunter is a midsize fish in Colorado Democratic politics, Haddon is a whale. He was a close adviser to former Senator Gary Hart and a strong ally of Governor Roy Romer...
Stone calls U Turn a scorpions-in-a-bucket movie; deadly critters snap at one another until only the strongest (or the top billed) survives. It also honors the familiar tropes of hombre films, from the requisite convenience-store holdup and multiple murder to a strident Ennio Morricone score (with the banshee harmonica from his Sergio Leone westerns). There's also a waitress named Flo. Stone swathes all this menace in his patented white-hot style: slo-mo, echoing voices, flashbacks that flick like lightning, cartoon sound effects (when the Mustang is mentioned, you'll hear a horse whinny...
Unfortunately, this weekend Harvard may have to play without Glass, one of its strongest defensive players. After spraining her ankle en route to a 1-0 victory over Columbia on September 19, she only played in one half of the Yale game and has not practiced since...
...think it looks like a terrific group, perhaps the strongest ever," Hulse said. "We have a large number of people returning-something like 33 returning members, up from about 20 last year-which will give us a lot of institutional memory...
...smelled the strongest in the tunnel going to the dining hall," said Adams resident Shirley Park...