Word: widest
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Harvard's score was its highest since 1955, and the 59-point spread was the widest point margin since Harvard's opening game against Maryland...
Much may depend, of course, on Humphrey's choice of a running mate. In order to win in November, he will need the widest possible support in the cities and among the Kennedy-McCarthy factions. Three of the Vice President's favorites for a partner on the ticket are Oklahoma's Senator Fred Harris, Maine's Senator Edmund Muskie, and San Francisco's Mayor Joseph Alioto, a Catholic liberal of whom Humphrey thinks highly. A better known possibility would be Sargent Shriver, who might reconcile some of the Kennedy partisans...
...York City's Howard Leary, 56, has the biggest job of any cop, with the widest range of problems and perhaps the most maddening bureaucracy. He points out that his city has almost ten times as many violent crimes as London (63,412 v. 7,302 last year), despite the British capital's edge in population. The big city has the unique distinction of harboring five of the 24 Cosa Nostra families and most of the nation's narcotics addicts. Almost alone, however, it has escaped major riots since...
...called in for specific situations?Sorensen's brother Philip, former lieutenant governor of Nebraska, was summoned from his present job in Indiana to work his old home state. Jerry Bruno, who had run Kennedy's office in Syracuse, N.Y., supervises the candidate's advance work, attempting to get the widest possible exposure with as much drama as possible. Kennedy and entourage roll up to a small-town school. No one is in sight. Will he be photographed being greeted by no one? Hardly. At the proper moment, kids stream on cue from every door, engulfing the candidate, filling the lenses...
King had the widest following of any black leader, but even he could claim nothing like universal loyalty. Though he was admired and respected by the vast majority of Negroes, his real influence was largely limited to the South, where the Negro pastor has traditionally had a strong hold on his flock (see RELIGION) and where King could point to concrete victories as legal segregation was progressively being abolished. In the North, where racial attitudes are subtler and the Negroes' plight is largely one of economic deprivation, he never achieved comparable success...