Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time since Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's peace initiative began four months ago, nobody-in Cairo, Jerusalem, Washington or anywhere else-had the slightest idea what was going to happen next...
...world in addition to Iran. Then he repeated an editorial suggestion by the New York Times that Miller voluntarily withdraw his nomination. At that, Michigan Democrat Donald Riegle Jr. exclaimed: "This committee has taken every shot we could at Mr. Miller and hasn't touched him in the slightest. Now you're saying to him: 'You take the gun and shoot yourself!' " Miller himself coolly told Proxmire: "I do not intend to withdraw my nomination, and I hope that you will reform your ways and vote...
McLaughlin's boys took the floor for the second-half warm-up looking like a bunch of first-year med students after their first autopsy--there was not the slightest hint of a smile on anyone's face, the probable result of some locker-room fireworks...
...delayed by environmental worries. Fishermen have long sought assurances that the bank, vital to Massachusetts' $500 million-a-year catch, would be protected from even the slightest risks of pollution. Oilmen, who estimate that there may be 180 million to 650 million bbl. of oil and from 1.2 trillion to 4.2 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas in the region, sought to calm the fishermen's fears by promising to take proper precautions against leaks and spills. The Interior Department tried to counter objections by reducing the size of the proposed sale from 155 tracts to 128 covering...
...paper, Princeton may have the slightest of edges in terms of individual match-ups today, but as Harvard captain Mark Panarese said Thursday, "All the way down the line, it's literally a tossup...