Word: hardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...common additive is a white salt-like substance. When it is noticed by a buyer, the drug-pusher will identify the substitute as some hard drug like cocaine which has been added to give the grass more potency...
...common weariness in the faces of travelling people. Someone was always sleeping on one of the train station benches but no one dared to wake him: no train could be more important than a few hours' sleep if you were tired enough to fall asleep on a hard wooden bench in a cold waiting room. Travelling the slow ways taught one that time was inconsequential. Getting there would take a long time, so you found value in what happened...
...slogged along about ankle deep in mud. I held her sleeping bag for her once while she squatted in the road to piss and a few other times at places where the road had sharp gravel. We had to pass up one shortcut because the rocks would be too hard on Yana's feet. By the time we got to the vicinity of the commune, it was quite dark in the valley, though sunlight still shone on the meuntain...
...Eagle style of hockey is based on hard-hitting and harder shooting. With lessened emphasis on finesse or precision play. It is not designed so much to be an end in itself, but primarily a means of throwing the opposition off its own game, and it is highly successful, especially against Harvard...
...change of mood from the first to the second Mabuse is complete. Each character of the second is typed, limited, almost judged in a hard, bitter manner. In the place of the ambivalent de Witt we have a pig, Inspector Lohmann, whose chief distinction is the dread in which petty criminals hold him. A practical detective, Lohmann works not by mental penetration and battles of the will, but by reconstructing acts men have already committed. He uses physical clues to track down the master criminal where de Witt tried to discover his identity and scize Mabuse himself...