Word: toughest
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Some districts have a reputation for being harder than others. The Middle Atlantic one, for instance--consisting of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland-D.C., and West Virginia--is supposed to be the toughest...
...toughest Olympic test of all had been all but conceded to U.C.L.A.'s World Record Holder Rafer Johnson. The U.S. Navy's and Indiana U.'s Milt Campbell, runner-up to 1952 Champion Bob Mathias at Helsinki, and an even huskier broth of a boy four years later, had other ideas. "The good Lord," said Campbell, had told him to try the decathlon rather than the hurdles, and the young (23) Negro poured it on in almost every event. Only a surprisingly poor showing in the pole vault (11 ft. 1¾ in.) kept Campbell from breaking...
...long grind has not been easy, but Parry O'Brien, for one, is sure it has been worth the effort. He has made himself into the best shotputter in the world. Few men in Melbourne this week are really close, and his toughest competition will come from his own teammates, Ken Bantum (the only man to beat O'Brien in competition in the last four years) and Bill Nieder. Both have the physical potential some day to surpass Parry's mark. But it is doubtful that either man has the stom ach for Parry's solitary...
...Michigan's bow-tied. New-Dealing Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams won a fifth term after a seemingly easygoing-hut decidedly breathless-campaign against his toughest competition ever: Detroit's capable Republican Mayor Albert E. Cobo, 63. Soapy benefited mightily from Michigan's split-ticket voters was even strong upstate, far from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. machines in the big cities...
...thoroughbreds that went to the post last week for the Garden State (N.J.) Stakes were competing for the biggest purse ($319,210) in racing history. At a mile and one-sixteenth, the race was the toughest and most revealing test of two-year-olds in the nation...