Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...predominantly Negro community a mile away. But his coming to Levittown flowered fears, jeers and widespread rumors that he was the spearhead of a Negro invasion. For days surly crowds grumbled outside his house, finally threw stones through its picture window. Bristol Township police were reinforced by tough state troopers at the direction of Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor George M. Leader ("I am ashamed," said Leader, "that this occurred in Pennsylvania...
...days later, Marosan, who more and more does the tough talking for the castrated Premier Janos Kadar, went to Budapest Polytechnic University, where a student demonstration set off last year's revolt. "You may swathe yourselves in millions of meters of our national colors; you may sing the national anthem from morning to night," but it will do no good, he said. His alert cops arrested 1,200 Hungarians in July, Marosan went on. At this point some students got up and left the hall. "Our ranks are becoming thinner, my young student friends," said Marosan. "It is just...
...that only stern measures could weld all the tribal nations of Ghana into a unified country. Evidently shaken by last summer's anti-government demonstrations in Kumasi arid Accra, Nkrumah appointed as his Interior Minister in charge of immigration and police a squat, hoarse-voiced and flamboyant party tough named Krobo Edusei...
...caught between the lines in a pitched battle between "downtown" alumni and Coach "Cowboy" Johnny Cherberg, and when his own eligibility proved to be at stake, he packed his gear and moved to Minnesota. National Collegiate Athletic Association rules kept Transfer Student Cox on the sidelines for a long, tough season. Then he busied himself by getting married once more. But his new wife has been forced to share him with his first love: football. Bobby still mixes his plays with fine disdain for classic strategy, and his most outrageous hunches still have a habit of paying off. Last year...
...first time had the leisure to read and to argue Marxist dialectics-with his fellow convicts). Before Tito was ready for his famous World War II role as the ruthless partisan fighter against not only the German invaders but his anti-Communist countrymen, he served a tough apprenticeship as a Communist underground agent, using false names and passports, surfacing occasionally in Vienna, Istanbul, Paris. In Zagreb he mostly posed and lived as a wealthy engineer. He went frequently to Moscow and was not always sure, during the purge frenzy of the 1930s, that he would come back alive...