Word: toughest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coraggio was the type of ship which confronts a pilot with the toughest problems and dangers of all. She was built to carry the biggest load that could squeeze through the ditch. Her twin screws churn up mud within inches of the bottom, tend to make the big ship yaw from side to side. Besides, she was heading south full of highly volatile free gases left (because of an evaporator breakdown) from her last load of crude. A single bump, a single spark, could explode the gas in an instant mass of flame. Skipper Aniello Coppola stuck close...
...seat some time between the general election and his January inauguration, in which case his successor will be picked in a singleshot, leader-take-all special election. Already a declared Senate candidate and the early favorite: ultraconservative, Red-chasing Congressman at Large Martin Dies. Likely to give Dies his toughest competition: Ralph Yarborough...
...intends to aid Siles, as it aided Paz Estenssoro, and he will need the help. For Fighter Siles, the toughest battles lie ahead...
Niarchos' routine, as a London associate observed, "is that he has no routine." However, summer usually finds him aboard the Creole, winter on the ski slopes of St. Moritz (where the toughest descent is labeled NIARCHOS RUN). In June, the menage gravitates to London for the social season. Twice in the past four years they have come to the U.S. so that his attractive young wife, Eugenie Niarchos, 26, could bear two native American sons...
...figures plainly showed, Chrysler's biggest and toughest job is selling. Plymouth, the company's high-volume bread-and-butter car, has dropped from 422,187 units assembled in 1955's first half to 243,541 in the same period this year, the sharpest (42%) slide in the industry. Plymouth's share of total auto production, which stood at 9.92% in 1955's first six months, has fallen to 7.63%. Dodge, the company's No. 2 seller, has fallen from 179,188 units to 108,545, a drop of 40%. Its proportion of auto...