Word: stiffest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard team faces its strongest competition of the fall this weekend at Amherst, as they seek to capture the prestigious New England championship for the first time. Harvard will receive its stiffest challenges from defending champions Dartmouth, and powerful Yale, who did not participate last year...
...granted tax relief to property owners but not to renters, have stirred up California's tenants; they had appealed to landlords to pass on a portion of their tax savings to them, but many landlords refused to do so. As a consequence, Santa Monica enacted one of the stiffest control laws in the country and rolled all rents back to the levels of April 1978. Since November, Los Angeles, Berkeley, Davis and parts of Beverly Hills have voted for rent control. San Diego consumerists are agitating to get rent control on the ballot for a September election...
...squad's stiffest competition in the preliminary round should come from Williams, which conquered the women racketeers twice last year--once in the Howe Cup. The Crimson dumped Williams 5-2 earlier this season, but the revenge won't be complete without a victory Saturday...
...meekly let himself be used in the Watergate coverup. Clarence Kelley, the tough cop who had headed the Kansas City, Mo., police department, allowed himself to be hobbled by the Hoover clique of high-level bureaucrats at FBI headquarters. Last week former Federal Judge William H. Webster confronted the stiffest test of his ten months as FBI director and apparently passed...
Brustein reports that Kingman Brewster had initially said to him, "You've been shooting your mouth off about the theater--why don't you do something about it?" And for one of the stiffest critics in theater, there were "painful consequences" in dealing with people when he tried to put his ideals into action. One consequence was that Brustein has gained a reputation among some people for arrogance. But his colleagues dismiss this, finding him gentlemanly and stimulating. "He's no more arrogant than any other talented person I've ever worked with," says Alvin Epstein...