Word: surest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knew what to do with either. In Samneua province, scene of some of the fiercest skirmishing, a native cable-office employee stopped reporters on the street to inquire: "What should I do with this?" It was a cable handed him a week earlier by CBS Correspondent Peter Kalischer. The surest way to get anything resembling an accurate story was to make a flying circuit of the battle area, and that, as TIME Correspondent Stanley Karnow reported (see FOREIGN NEWS), involved a heart-thumping flight through monsoon storm clouds, hairbreadth nighttime landings on muddy air strips marked only by kerosene pots...
...surest measure of the new sluggers comes from Washington's small-fry fans. In the free-trading market of bubble-gum baseball cards, a single Mantle or Ted Williams used to command seven lesser players. Last week a card-swapping youngster firmly announced the new prices: "I'll give 20 for one of Killebrew." What about Allison? "Twenty, too," he said, "but nobody...
...effect has been to increase the very problem-unemployment-that Castro promises to attack through land reform. As Puerto Rico, Brazil and other Latin American states have discovered, the fastest, surest way to provide mass high-income employment is industrialization; all of Fidel Castro's measures so far have scared off the capital that builds factories. Last week, deeply concerned that for the masses his revolution is coming to equal joblessness. Castro announced that during the next six months he will spend $135 million on public works to build roads, parks, bridges, schools and hospitals...
...weeks, and his political enemies are using his illness in their war of nerves. The most effective method is a vicious appeal to voodoo believers, who are convinced that Duvalier is powerful because of ouangas that he planted about Port-au-Prince. As every practitioner of voodoo knows, the surest way to deprive a charm of its power is to apply human excrement. Last week the President's enemies went after what was supposed to be one of his strongest ouangas: the grave of his father, a tailor, who died last year. Grave robbers pried open the above-ground...
Director Cary Clasz has put together a smooth production; the castumes are very fine indeed. And the whole vindicates Thomas' assertion that "Laughter is surely the surest touch of genius in creation...