Word: toughest
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...says Glen Browder, a former Alabama Democratic congressman completing a book on the South's shifting racial politics, "a lot of Democrats are scared for Artur Davis to be the nominee," partly because Republicans will likely try to pounce on his connection to President Obama. Davis will find his toughest proving grounds in the state's largely white northern hill country. "They know his candidacy doesn't make sense in the context of Alabama's history," Browder says...
...pitchers in today's game, who would be the toughest for you to face? Johan Santana [of the New York Mets] would be one of them. He's phenomenal. He reminds me so much of what Doc Gooden once was. You give him runs early enough, he's going to win that ballgame. Doc Gooden was the same way. You give him three runs early, you can close the door...
...wonder that Hong Kong has taken some of the toughest measures of any country in the effort to prevent and control the spread of the H1N1 Influenza A swine flu, which has killed more than 100 people in Mexico and infected several in the U.S., Canada and Spain, with suspected cases in Israel and New Zealand. Surgical masks, quarantines and empty streets are all too familiar for the city's 7 million residents, who saw their normally bustling lives screech to a halt six years ago, when SARS killed nearly 300 people. (See pictures of the swine flu outbreak...
...forced me to do it, and after [Johnson] was around for a while I felt a lot more comfortable.” “I did a lot of work to try to make her feel relaxed,” Johnson added. “She was the toughest.”While Delaney-Smith was unable to attend last night’s screening—she is recovering from back surgery—her philosophy touched every part of Johnson’s project. The footage of Delaney-Smith’s speeches on the Lavietes Pavilion...
...trouble this weekend,” junior crew Michelle Konstadt said. “We really should not have had so much trouble, as we were sailing on our home water. However, northwest winds on the Charles are some of the toughest conditions we will face all year...