Word: tough
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chip Gannon put it this way: "If we beat Navy and then take Dartmouth next Wednesday, we'll be one of the toughest teams to beat in New England. Last year, we lost a lot of tough overtime games at the beginning and this broke the squad's morale...
...duck hawk is a large and rare falcon. The pigeons will have a tough job trying to escape its speedy dive, for it is one of the fastest birds in the world...
...main objections are the same which apply is every aspect of the "Get tough with Russia" policy; the Pact would increase the rift between East and West; it would again decrease the chances of an eventual reconciliation; and it would be an invitation for Russia to launch a retaliative measure. In other words, the Pact might become just another link in the international game of tit-for-tat which brings war closer and closer...
...stickwork of Johnny Casey and Tony Malo that sank four of Brown's six scores, while all night long goalie Don Whiston was stopping the Crimson's steady attack. And on several occasions the Harvard defense left notminder Phil Clark with the tough task of facing the Bruin forwards all alone...
...died of coronary thrombosis four months ago, the day the proofs of his book came from the printer), Elmer Lincoln Irey was coordinator of all Treasury law-enforcement units. He wasn't a lawyer, he wasn't a detective, and he wasn't physically tough. But he had a genius for ferreting out the sources of gangsters' income and jailing crooks for tax evasion. Elmer Irey and his T-men put the finger on such arrogant law-flout-ers as Al Capone, "Nucky" Johnson, Moe Annenberg and Tom Pendergast...