Word: uppermost
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During two grueling months of campaigning at factory gates and mine portals, the candidates concentrated on local issues like jobs and fuel shortages. These problems were clearly uppermost in the minds of voters in the gritty, economically troubled district, which in recent years has lost population. Yet Watergate was never far from the surface. Murtha spoke of the Administration's "crisis of credibility" and adopted as his slogan, "One honest man can make a difference." Sensing that Watergate might tip the balance against his "promotion," Fox attacked the non-local press. "The national news media brought Watergate into this...
...erased 18 minutes of tape [Dec. 10]. I have been an executive secretary for 20 years, have transcribed from many different kinds of recording machines, and cannot, in all good conscience, believe her statement that she pressed the wrong button. When working on a transcribing machine, you always have uppermost in your mind that you will press the right button because the recorded word is so very important-more so in her case than any other...
...41st annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors in San Francisco last week, the chiefs of the nation's cities had one topic uppermost in their minds: Nixon Administration proposals for special revenue sharing and the inevitable setbacks they pose for the cities. Slated to become effective in July 1974, the Nixon measures would spread existing federally funded programs-including Model Cities and urban renewal-into seven broad areas, with virtually no guidelines from Washington on how money allotted to the cities is to be spent...
...objective, as McCord understood it, was to anticipate the plans of any groups planning violence during the presidential campaign. "Uppermost in everyone's mind at that point in time, and certainly in mine," said McCord, "was the bloodshed which had occurred at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago...
...live. When the Nazis entered Vienna and prospects for the Freud family to escape appeared dim, his daughter Anna asked whether it might not be better to kill themselves. Freud's reply: "Why? Because they would like us to?" Eventually the longing to end the struggle became uppermost, but Schur did not see that as defeat. His book ends with words that Freud himself had written many years earlier: "Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task...