Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nina Davis was hard as nails, a perfect match for most of the city reporters. Elizabeth Gardner was biting her lip and looking at the floor. She let her half-smoked cigarette flop in an ashtray and held her stomach, unnoticed...
...newspapermen weren't listening. Mike Royko, a columnist for the Chicago Daily News. had the Weathermen pegged as aristocratic dilettantes. "They spoke a combination of Negro slang, greaser jargon, and Marxist slogans, which is a bit hard to do if you have a Ph.D. in Anthropology and your father is a stockbroker...
Brown is a perennial power in soccer, and a Harvard defeat at its hands makes its season complete. But the Bruins have a hard time keeping players on its junior varsity, while Harvard seems to keep a big squad right through the season...
...saying that, I'm just saying that it's hard to assimilate all these people that come from places where they don't care about order and sanitation, and the things that are important to New Yorkers...
Lindsay was "cute" and he was "nice," yet no one would have liked to vote for him. It was hard to "Vote for New York" when everything seemed wrong, yet harder to vote for "that man from Staten Island who wants the war" or the village idiot with the Groucho Marx moustache...