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Word: tough (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just met three pretty tough teams." That's the way Sam Savidge, captain of the golf team, explained the shut-out results of the Spring trip. But Savidge isn't discouraged. "North Carolina is probably the strongest team in the country, and the match was a profitable experience for us. We'll do all right for the rest of the season," he optimistically added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers Expect Fewer Traps Ahead After Southern Fiasco | 4/8/1948 | See Source »

...important: for the first time in a year the Greek government forces, instead of trying to "contain" the guerrillas, had taken the offensive. Just as the U.S. had finally begun to crowd the Communists with political moves like the Trieste trump in Italy and General Lucius Clay's tough stand in Germany, so the Greek army was no longer Content to sit back and wait for the next Communist threat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Captain of the Crags | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

Last week, CBS presented him as a radio star in a new program tailored to his short, (5 ft. 2 in.), explosive measure. "Shorty Bell" (Sun. 9:30 p.m., E.S.T.), "a novel written especially for the air," is a continued story about a tough young newspaper circulation hustler who would give his brass knuckles to be a reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Shorty | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...first major race (200 miles over rough terrain in about 30 hours), later the same year won the Eastern International Dog Derby, so dominated the field for the next ten years that fans referred to the races as "St. Godard against the field." Occasionally he finished tough races with two or three dog-tired huskies riding in the sled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 5, 1948 | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...Some Tough Breaks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rehabilitation Program Boon to Wounded Vets | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

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