Word: trickiest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pent-up energies against their fellows. Since 1971 crime in the small country (pop. 4.5 million) has gone up 21.7%. Robbery is up 50%, juvenile delinquency 12%. When Israeli cops are not rounding up petty rip-off artists, drug pushers and hookers, they work on their country's trickiest police problem: beating terrorists to the explosion...
...change in light of the polls. But the Watergate incident, the ITT case, and the grain deal (even presuming, as is commonplace nowadays, that these are as sinister as the Democrats charge) are not the stuff of a winning campaign. Nor are McGovern's charges that Nixon is our trickiest President particularly damning...
...full-backs in almost every game, and Peter Bogovich, who had the hardest shot on the squad. But Coach Bruce Munro can now call on freshman record-setter Felix Adedeji to draw out the opposition defense, and Phil Kydes has an incredibly powerful shot. Add to that that two trickiest and talented forwards in the league, Charlie Thomas and Chris Papagianis, and you have a forward line that can outrun, out-manuever and overpower any defense in the League...
...Abel's trickiest tasks will be restraining the more volatile bravos within his constituency. Some of them are demanding that the contract restriction on local strikes be scrapped. This would mean that workers at individual plants could walk out over local issues at any time. Abel, who opposes the demand, remembers how that system worked when he was a young steelworker: "We had 39 strikes in my plant in one year. It was strike, strike, strike...
...South Viet Nam: Clearly the most important, if not the trickiest stop Agnew will make, it is intended to reinforce Nixon's pledge to the Thieu government and also to provide Nixon with a fresh assessment of the progress of Vietnamization since the Cambodian invasion...