Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest battle of the session, the heat was on some 15 to 20 Republican swing voters who might be pulled by homeside railroad and building-trades union lobbyists to vote for mild legislation. It was also on an equal number of Southern Democrats tempted to vote for a tough bill but under heavy pressure from Speaker Rayburn-"This is a party issue. What are you, a Democrat or a Republican?"-to vote for the Elliott bill. And over the battle hung the prospect of a presidential veto of any labor bill that did not meet the proposition, as the President...
...election officials to preserve for two years all records of election for federal offices and permit the Justice Department to inspect them, 3) extend the life of the federal Civil Rights Commission for two years beyond its expiration date next month. Earlier the committee (18-13) junked a proposed, tough section that would have empowered the Attorney General to initiate suits to protect civil rights, including the right to attend integrated schools. Also dropped was a section empowering the Federal Government to aid local school authorities with desegregation problems-a section that would have given specific congressional endorsement...
...prefers to be known by his unofficial title, Minister of the Sahara. A solidly built, wavy-haired man with blandly skeptical eyes half-hidden behind owlish glasses, Soustelle calls himself "a typical Frenchman," and in some respects looks the part. But at various times in his meteoric career this tough, confident and shrewd man has been described as "the Molotov of Gaullism," "Jacques the Wrecker," "the Big Alley Cat," "a born secret policeman," and "the most dangerous man in France." However unfair some of these epithets may be, dynamic Jacques Soustelle today at 47 has more political potential than...
...must take one step backward in order to take 100 steps forward," declared tough, chunky Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat, 51, and with that convenient philosophy in mind last October, he took over Thailand's government, abrogated the constitution, dissolved the Parliament, abolished political parties, and set up martial law. Since most of the democratic trappings of the country were more apparent than real, Thailand did not seem to mind such highhandedness at all. Weeks ago, as the Buddhist Lenten season of Purima Pansa began. Thai temples gleamed with new coats of gold in keeping with the old adage. "When...
...helmsmanship, learned in a lifetime of small-boat racing ("I've always sailed. I guess") that made him North American sailing champion in 1956. More important, he was famed for setting up a sailmaking business at the age of 22. He developed and wove his own brand of tough fabric from Dacron, which proved so successful that last year he supplied some sails for all four America's Cup candidates, and was a member of Vim's afterguard in the Cup trials...