Word: fiercest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another nickname-"Little Ice Water"-fits even better. He stands 5 ft. 8½ in. and weighs only 140 lbs., but he manages consistently to hit one of the longest and straightest balls in golf. Apart from such purely technical skills, little Ben Hogan is the fiercest competitor in the game. With his relentless training schedule and assembly-line precision, Ben is all business, considers a social round of golf the most boring thing in the world. Any man who outscores the champ more than once this year will have to have most of the same qualities, because machine-like...
Long Drumfire. The fiercest battle of the week was fought in the no-government's-land of Jerusalem, which U.N. had once marked for international control...
Target: Toscanini. Victim of O'Connell's fiercest blast is Conductor Arturo Toscanini. The Maestro seen here is ill-natured, stubborn, suspicious, resentful. The reason for O'Connell's dislike is soon apparent: Toscanini once informed RCA Victor that he would make no records while Director O'Connell was present...
...nature of its Communist antagonists, who in Italy used different methods from the frank totalitarianism of their eastern European comrades. The success of the methods is reflected in a dispatch from TIME Correspondent Emmet Hughes, after a trip through northern Italy, whose glorious cities have become the Communists' fiercest strongholds. His report...
...cares only, and then half-incestuously, for his daughter Regina. His treatment of his wife, along with her knowledge of his guilty past, has made her a violent hysteric; his contempt for his sons, the power-craving Ben and the spineless Oscar, has made them bitterly hostile. The fiercest struggle is that between Ben and his father. Constantly defeated, at the moment when he seems finally beaten Ben ferrets out of his mother his father's guilty secret. Being enough to lynch his father, it is more than enough to break him. Ben now rules the roost...