Word: truest
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Only those born in Siena, the oldest and truest members of the contrade, truly understand the significance of the Palio. They feel it deeply in their hearts and desperately want to keep it a local affair, reserved only to those for whom it has meaning...
...offer them our deepest sympathy, for none of them will ever have the opportunity to quote to another man the words of Harvard's own Henry David Thoreau: "If I but love that virtue which he is, though it be scented in the morning air, still shall we be truest acquaintances, nor mortals know a sympathy more rare." Rebecca H. Rhodes '92 Jessie K. Minier...
...SAID that Jerusalem is the most important city in the world, holy to the three great monotheistic faiths and home to some of the truest believers of modern times. Yet, as an Israeli architect suggested to me on a recent trip, Jerusalem's geographical situation--one must climb the surrounding ridges and hills before entering the city--demands a certain humbleness, a sense that one must lower oneself before entering this closest spot to heaven on earth...
Cartoonists from Jules Feiffer to Garry Trudeau have doubled as playwrights, for understandable reasons: both crafts use dialogue and visual narrative, and in both the best humor is rooted in personality. Lynda Barry, whose weekly comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek appears in 55 newspapers, shows that her truest metier may be the stage in THE GOOD TIMES ARE KILLING ME, a sometimes campy yet mostly poignant off-Broadway memoir of blue-collar life in the '60s. The plot crams in far too much -- infidelity and divorce, the random death of a child, teen sex, Volare, bygone rock dances...
Still, the early years of the Cold War, for all the foolishness and hysteria they engendered, provided a sense of shared goals and common interests. The truest expression of common sacrifice is public investment, which requires that we give up some enjoyment now in order to provide for prosperity for posterity. And the single most important public investment of the postwar era--the Interstate highway system--was conceived and sold to the public as a national security measure...