Word: ruggedest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration and Congress to decide just what national purposes federal housing programs are supposed to serve, and just how the programs should fit the purposes. But beyond this governmental responsibility lies a responsibility of the housing industry. The industry is composed of some of the U.S.'s ruggedest free enterprisers, who work toward a single purpose only when they want Government help. Next needed step: to promote improved housing in the U.S. in other ways besides handing out loans and grants, e.g., through research on housing materials, designs, construction methods, and potential markets...
Some commentators turned away from the glint of gold long enough to isolate a few moral principles. Manhattan's brash Daily News, long the champion of the ruggedest sort of individualism, surprised its readers with an editorial essay in praise of contestants who stop at $32,000: "Practice moderation consistently," urged the News, "and you are very unlikely to go broke, die of overeating or overdrinking, make enemies unnecessarily or make a fool of yourself." The New York Post turned the subject over to its prize pundit, Max Lerner. In a six-article series, Lerner pontificated that "anyone...
...missionaries," he says. "We're represented abroad by some of the ruggedest, two-fisted construction men in the business. But from the dams and roads and canals that we build come new hopes. What we do is often taken to be representative of what all America does. We like to think we leave the impression around the world that all America is interested, earnestly and hopefully, in economic and social progress...
...buyers who still shop with an eye on fuel economy last week got an idea which cars can stretch a gallon the farthest. In the Fifth Annual Mobilgas Economy Run, experts drove 20 competing stock models from every major U.S. automaker over 1,335 miles of some of the ruggedest roads in the U.S., and made every drop of gas count...
...Boxer Robinson has whipped some of the ruggedest fighters of the day. Most fighters are "one-handed." They have a good right cross or a good left jab, but rarely combine the two. Robinson's repertoire, thrown with equal speed and power by either hand, includes every standard punch from a bolo to a hook-and a few he makes up on the spur of the moment...