Word: toughest
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...harriers' toughest task will be to break up a knot of five Yale runners whose previous times rate them faster than anyone except Benjamin and Fitzgerald. "We're just going to have to put out more," says Assistant Coach Ed Stowell...
Oddly enough, Democrat Hayworth's toughest problem is with labor. A member of the national board of Americans for Democratic Action, he was long a particular favorite of the U.A.W. But during his 1955-56 congressional term, he polled his Sixth District farmers, found them strongly in favor of flexible price supports-and therefore voted for the Republican Administration's farm program. His vote infuriated the U.A.W., which by no means confines its Sixth District interests to labor policy. High, rigid farm subsidies are an article of the U.A.W.'s national Democratic faith, and Hayworth found himself...
...Yardling soccer team will play its toughest game of the season so far, when it meets the MIT Freshmen in an away match tomorrow...
...came together in the fifth game, with the Braves basking in the 3-1 series lead. Switch-Hitter Red Schoendienst lined a drive toward left. Elston Howard took off with the crack of the bat, ran straight into the murderous glare that makes left field at Yankee Stadium the toughest sun field in the major leagues. Diving to his knees, Howard sprawled forward, stuck out his gloved hand, and came up with the ball that had looked like a sure base hit. Howard scrambled to his feet, gunned a strike to first base to double a surprised Bill Bruton...
After two of the toughest years since the icebox became a refrigerator, the appliance industry is making a strong comeback. The turnabout started in June, and in the last several weeks all burners have been on. Last week the National Electrical Manufacturers Association reported that August sales of refrigerators, freezers, water heaters and food disposers topped August a year ago. In Chicago, August sales of air conditioners were up 45%, freezers 54%, electric ranges...