Word: utmost
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arab reprisal mission against Israel. On Sunday night the group drafted a mild statement to be issued as soon as the news broke. It stressed that the U.S. had no prior knowledge of the attack, which was blandly described as "a very serious development and a source of utmost concern...
...obscure World War I hero. The new President, inspired by a letter from an unnamed admirer, quoted a passage from Treptow'sdiary: "America must win this war. Therefore, I will work, I will save, I will sacrifice, I will endure, I will fight cheerfully and do my utmost, as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone...
...every concession in the world to have détente with the Soviet Union at the same time that we use the mailed fist, you might say, against some smaller country that in some instances, faced with dissent, violates human rights? What I believe is that we do our utmost to bring about [improvement in human rights] in those countries that are aligned with us, but not at the expense of helping an overthrow by a [faction] that is totalitarian. Take South Korea as an example. The South Korean government is doing things that we do not support. We wish...
...management treats this patriotic interlude, prompted by the Iranian hostage situation, with the utmost seriousness. Charles Nedder, vice president for Lord and Taylor's New England stores, recently explained the practice thus: "We decided to add the anthem as a reaffirmation of our faith in America. We feel this is particularly valid in Boston, which, after all, is the genesis of liberty and democracy in America." He added that all 34 stores in the chain will play the national an them daily until the hostages are released...
Such moves have drawn considerable criticism as publicity stunts, and the Atlanta Journal and Constitution has even made the suggestion that the local police, though devoted, are not up to the job. "I have the utmost confidence in our investigation," retorts Commissioner Brown, who defends enlisting outside help by saying, "I don't believe all knowledge resides in Georgia." Most Atlantans, especially in the anxious black neighborhoods, appear to support the wide-ranging efforts to break the case...