Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Food for Thought. Peruvians are the world's No. 1 producers of crude cocaine, and also among its foremost users. Their country has an overabundance of coca leaves, from which the white-crystalline-powdered drug is refined. In the highland valleys of the Peruvian Andes, the green coca plants-stretch out for miles in cultivated fields, like wheat in Kansas. Use of the drug got its start after the Spanish conquest, when Peruvian Indians began chewing coca to offset the hunger and fatigue they suffered under their new masters. Later, miners took to chewing it to last out their...
...Lisbon's small and elegant Hotel Aviz, where most globe-trotters halt for a quick refresher, one wall is covered with the exploits of Diaz, Da Gama, Magellan and other great Portuguese explorers. On the opposite wall, a plaque pays tribute to the foremost explorer of the modern world of the air-Juan Terry Trippe. The plaque commemorates the rediscovery of the old world by the new: the first passenger flight of Trippe and his Pan American Airways Dixie Clipper from the U.S. to Lisbon on June...
...game, as far as the attack man is concerned, is to gain a stop on the man guarding him, by any one of a number of crafty maneuvers. Foremost of the offensive arts is "dodging," (see cut left) in which the man with the ball fakes his defender off balance and then spins past him. There are also a number of "brush plays" where one of more attackers stage a traffic jam which prevents the defenseman from keeping up with the ball carrier...
...final tally this week showed 2,755 votes for the Marxists, 2,020 for the Popular Alliance. Communist Gasperoni could count for four more years on 33 of the republic's 60 representatives. From the Palazzo del Governo, in which stands the statue of San Marino's foremost honorary citizen, Abraham Lincoln, the blue and white flag of Sammarinese liberty fluttered-and beside it, the Red Flag with hammer & sickle...
Wieman, commenting on the appointment said, "Our search for the best man available has been nationwide. In Dave Nelson I think we have found exactly the man we want. He fits our situation ideally and comes to us with highest recommendations from some of the country's foremost football...