Word: tough
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course "Boats," and appeared for it bleary-eyed on Monday mornings at 8:40. "We had a hell of a good time," says Albion. Eventually he found the conflict between flunking students as a dean and nursing them as a professor a little strenuous, and he threw a tough hour quiz at his group of boatmen. There were dark muttering from the white-shoe crowd, and a subsequent undergraduate musical appeared with verses warning to "beware of perfidious Albion...
...Administration's bill got a cool reception in the Committee, and will have more tough going on the floor of the House and Senate. Congress must now decide whether Point Four is economically and politically unsound or whether, as Representative Javits of New York said, it is "top flight foreign policy thinking--a real American answer to Communism...
...crowning blow to Joe's self-esteem was that the girl he loved in his boyhood became a popular novelist and wrote a book in which he found himself pictured as a tough guy, with quaint phrases and vague literary aspirations. It was true enough to make him wince and wrong enough to make him sore. Readers may feel somewhat the same way about The Best of Intentions. Its artificiality lies in the vagueness and unreality of Joe Moreton apart from, his adolescent and middle-aged embarrassments. The latter may have been real enough, but they are less than...
Dunn's party had a typically tough time. The all-Harvard group chopped staircases into ice cliffs, climbed skyline ridges, and waded through glacial streams for six days only to have snow and rain force them into their mountain tents for the rest of their stay...
...playboy and a puppet. The French owned him, along with the 7,000 jazz phonograph records and the 100 dozen ping-pong balls with which he moved into his teakwood Palace of Supreme Peace. The young emperor, as "absolute master, father and mother" of his tough, diligent people, seemed only partly to fulfill the requirements of the Imperial Book of Rites which says that "the Emperor's eyes must dwell motionless upon utter vacancy, as his mind is filled with August Thoughts." When Bao Dai returned to his country last June, IndoChina's mother & father was changed...