Word: stingiest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Careening toward adjournment, Congress last week approved the largest defense appropriation in history ($72 billion) and the stingiest foreign-aid appropriation ($1.75 billion). Those two figures told much about the week on Capitol Hill, and indeed about the entire contentious, niggardly 90th...
High time-since the now-standing immigration law is an abomination, depending as it does on "a national origins" quota system created in 1924. It was designed to reflect the U.S. population makeup as of 1920 and heavily favored North European nations, while offering only the stingiest quotas to other parts of the world. Despite all the hysterical criticism that comes its way, the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 actually liberalized the quota system, particularly for Orientals...
...threw 25 touchdown passes this year. But they also had the N.F.L.'s leakiest defense, by the margin of 237 yds. and 20 first downs. The experts figured that was a dainty dish to set before the Western Champion Colts, with the strongest offense (428 points) and the stingiest defense (225 points) in pro football. What's more, the East had won only one N.F.L. title in the last seven years. At game time, the oddsmakers favored Baltimore by seven points...
...huge dressing-room poster proclaimed: HOME OF THE GREEN BAY PACKERS-THE NEW YORK YANKEES OF FOOTBALL. Like baseball's Yankees, the World Champion Packers seemed invincible; they were unbeaten in six preseason and ten regular-season games. They boasted the highest-scoring offense (309 points), the stingiest defense (74 points) in pro football, and sportswriters called them "the greatest team ever assembled...
...even with the stingiest defense around, the varsity will need a stellar performance from its attack unit to beat the perennially tough Tigers. Lou Williams must score heavily; Grady Watts must shake up the Princeton defense with his sharp passing game; and Woody Spruance must continue to bull his way around the goal for scores...