Word: tough
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach John Chase and his varsity quad open the second portion of the inter's hockey season tomorrow, and judging from the list of coming opponents, things will be just as tough for the team as they were before the Christmas layoff...
...spite of Chiang's tough talk, it looked last week as if the Nanking government might be willing to make a deal. Through Nanking's chanceries swept a rumor that the U.S. and Russian embassies would be asked to step in as joint mediators. Aside from the building of defense works along the Yangtze, military operations were at a standstill...
Each student had had to appear before an admissions committee. The committee was tough on grinds and narrow specialists ("Germany has had enough of bookish but purposeless Herren Doktoren"). It also rejected one boy who hopefully emphasized that his grandmother had been an Aryan. But it did accept several Communists-"otherwise," explained a professor, "we could not truly call ourselves a free university...
...equipment is nervous tension, under fine control. He believes it is something a golfer must be born with, then have tempered under pressure. Hogan's outward manifestation of it: a frozen half-grin, something like an infant's "gas smile," denoting pain inside. When the going gets tough as it did in the 1947 Jacksonville Open-he took eleven strokes on a par-three hole-the Hogan nerves hold. On the next hole at Jacksonville he got a birdie...
Force of Evil (Enterprise; MGM) takes a long, unfavorable look at the numbers racket. Notoriously unprofitable for suckers, the racket also turns out to be unrewarding dramatically. A tough young shyster (John Garfield) gets himself neck-deep in crooked shenanigans. When he tries to repay his older and more honest brother (Thomas Gomez) for past favors, he only succeeds in getting the brother caught in the middle of a gang war. To prove fairly conclusively that the racket doesn't really pay, Garfield's passion for a pretty secretary (Beatrice Pearson) comes to a very...