Word: utmost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like most other University officials, Burke has been granted powers that should only be exercised, if at all, with the utmost discretion. Unlike most other University officials, Burke has acted conspicuously in ways that leave his discretion in doubt...
...Dilemma. The White House still wants to push on to the moon with "the utmost urgency," says one Administration official. But such are the differences between Webb and Holmes that the whole program is in danger of bogging down...
...world, no country's destiny depends more on the outcome of that decision than does Turkey's. In spite of the implications of our official attitude toward Cuba now-or, probably, because of our stand-the Turks are ready to support our President to the utmost...
...titan of U.S. advertising who made J. Walter Thompson Co. into the world's biggest ($370 million annual billings) and most sedate ad agency as its president from 1916 to 1955 and board chairman from 1955 to 1961; of bleeding peptic ulcer; in Manhattan. An aloof man of utmost rectitude, Resor opened Thompson's Cincinnati office in 1980s and eight years later bought the firm from its namesake; shunning the flashy sell, his agency turned out solid, convincing ads for such blue-chip clients as Ford and Eastman Kodak, thrived on scientific surveys and the negative commandments...
...Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Emil George Salinger's first trip to Russia, and he had come with commissions of the utmost gravity: to improve communications between the world's two leading powers and to arrange a swap of television appearances between his boss and the boss of all the Russians, Nikita Khrushchev. Alas for unlucky Pierre-he never had a chance. From the moment he was met by Aleksei Adzhubei, editor of Izvestia and Khrushchev's son-in-law, the swart, short, 36-year-old ex-reporter from San Francisco found himself up to his cigar butt...