Word: utmost
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wildly cheering supporters, he struck the same mixed tone of humility and boyish glee that so obviously had charmed American voters during the campaign. Said he: "I consider that trust you have placed in me sacred, and I give you my sacred oath that I will do my utmost to justify your faith." That was the sober side; the other showed a few moments later when supporters brought him a cake shaped like the country, lush with flags marking the states he had carried. As the bearers held it up, the cake started to slip. Said Reagan with his widest...
...fact, the talent of the performers belies the weaknesses of the show. The somewhat shallow and ill-defined characters prevent the actors from utilizing their abilities with utmost success. How many students at Harvard sit for hours dreamily recording who they sat with at lunch, what everyone said and how they felt about it, as the character Lee, played by Linda Stafford, does? If they do, then they deserve more to be entered in the Adams House raft race and floated down the Charles River than to be enshrined on the stage. One reason for Lee's failure at times...
Thanking his supporters for their efforts, Reagan said, "I will do my utmost to justify your faith...
...lack of penetration resulted in only six penalty corners, usually a prime scoring opportunity. Chris Sailer did convert two of the six into shots (Yale was one for 12), but otherwise the stickwomen treated the Bulldog circle like a minefield--traversing it only when necessary, and then with the utmost care...
...Bell points out in "The End of American Exceptionalism," "A society is a people shaped by history and bound by comity. It is the rupture of comity, the play of ideological passions to their utmost extreme, that shreds the society and turns the city into a holocaust." If equality and liberty were once coincident in America, this is no longer the case. It is clear what Bell believes. In "Liberalism in the Post-industrial Society," he says...