Word: topmost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plump Madame Naidu is still a member of the Congress Party's Working Committee, is considered India's topmost orator. She paints her toenails bright...
...hopes that the threatened reorganization would be made only on the topmost Government level, the Navy had offered the Eberstadt plan (for Army, Navy and Air Departments, all tied in at the top by a National Security Council). The Army had won President Truman's backing for outright merger with the Air Forces as a third and coequal branch. The Navy recognized that in any case there was virtue in getting together on the lowest level-down where procurement, recruiting, training and transport services overlapped...
...Step. Kelly Turner came in for stiff examination from Democratic members of the committee. Their point: if he, as chief of the Navy's war plans section, was so positive about war and where the blow would fall, why were all the other topmost admirals out of step with him? Admiral Turner considered himself the chief adviser of Admiral Harold R. Stark, then chief of naval operations. But "Betty" Stark, in mid-October 1941, had written to Kimmel: "I do not believe that the Japs are going to sail into us." Reminded of that letter, Kelly Turner was unperturbed...
...shop had one topic evoked such continuous, prolonged, intense public concern. Nothing-not the homecoming of the heroes, not strikes nor reconversion, the Pearl Harbor investigation, the housing shortage nor this week's Big Three meeting, not even Santa Claus -had been able to drive the bomb from topmost place in the U.S. mind...
...game fish are the topmost rung of a long fish-eat-fish biological ladder. At the bottom are one-celled organisms-bacteria, algae, protozoa-which form the prey of slightly larger creatures (tiny crustaceans). These get eaten by the next size creatures-and so on up the line...