Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bowling ball-buhh-whoooooooo-crusssssshhh-is hardest for me. An easy sound is the race car-rrruuuuummmmm." " Navarro, 29, abandoned his studies six years ago to try his luck as a performer...
Closed Set. "I'm amazed at the reasoning power of the crow," says Bird Trainer Ray Berwick, a raven perched on the top of his head. "Crows are the chimpanzees of birds. The hardest to train and catch are the hawks and eagles. You could teach them to hunt and kill, but they know it already. But you can't teach them any tricks." The seagulls have turned out to be the most fierce; Berwick and an assistant have been badly pecked. Berwick has taught the gulls to fly at an actor's head, clobber him with...
...what was culturally best for his three sons, and for Boston. Paul's brother, Philip, now a novelist in California, remembers grimly that "every Friday afternoon he made all of us go to the Boston Symphony, where we had to sit without moving or wriggling on the hardest wooden seats in the world. One at a time, we each had to go with him to operas, plays, and all performances of the Handel and Haydn Society. But the symphony was toughest. God, how we suffered on those hard chairs...
...this summer-and the bargaining should not be difficult. Half of Norway's most important exports (fish, metals, paper) are already bought by Common Market customers. In addition, Norway's highly developed hydroelectric power system would fill a gap in the energy needs of the Six. The hardest bargaining will be over Norway's desire to protect its fishing fleet-foreign fishing boats now must stay twelve nautical miles from Norway's coast-and its inefficient, small-scale, heavily subsidized agriculture...
...polls. They heavily endorsed three of Ayub's ministers who were running for the National Assembly - notably Kashmir Affairs Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a zealous champion of Ayub's ambitious land reforms, who was elected from a Sind constituency dominated by feudal landlords who have been hardest hit by land redistribution. Ayub's biggest triumph was the voters' overwhelming rejection of orthodox Moslem extremists, who stumped for "purification" of society and repeal of such Ayub-sponsored reforms as a ban on polygamy and the traditional Moslem system of instant divorce at the husband's whim...