Word: stiffer
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...title, the three remaining contenders must do an intricate job of killing each other off, and Harvard must win its last four games. The Crimson should be favored against Penn this week, and should beat Brown at Providence three weeks from now. Princeton and Yale will provide much stiffer opposition...
Whatever he is doing, he is well aware that he is a man leaning into stiffer gales of controversy and challenge than any of his nine predecessors. For all his problems, Laird is remaining remarkably vertical. He has made tactical errors in hard-selling his views, but the Administration won the Senate vote on the antiballistic-missile program, an issue on which he staked his personal prestige. Two of the most antimilitary Democratic Senators, Gaylord Nelson and William Proxmire, praise the Republican Secretary's toughness and intelligence. "Most important," says Proxmire, "is that he does not stand...
They live in overmortgaged, underserviced blue-collar ghet tos where they pay a stiffer price - in poor schools, en croaching throughways and war casualties - than do affluent whites across the city lines. Most of them still believe in God, country, the work ethic and a sexual standard that calls for at least a decent public restraint. In a day of diz zying moral change, they see themselves as the last defenders of moral authority. That is why they still admire the military and regard the police as heroes. The New York Times's Tom Wicker had a revelation...
Ever since the fall of Abe Fortas, critics of the Supreme Court have been urging Congress to impose a stiffer code of financial ethics on judges. Last week, at the urging of Chief Justice Earl Warren, the Judicial Conference of the U.S., composed of 25 leading federal judges, beat Congress to the punch by adopting a tough code...
Although the Crimson weight men easily dominated events at Brown, they should face a much stiffer challenge this afternoon. Army captured nine of twelve places in the weight events at Yale last week, and two of its winning throws were significantly longer than Harvard's winning tosses at Brown...