Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shots of the city dramatized Brandt's argument. Stalinallee. where in 1953 tough kids stood up to Russian tanks with nothing but stones, looked deserted now. Only a tired old man walked the street, pushing his two-wheeled cart. The Kurfurstendamm of the West zone was alive with traffic, its sidewalk cafes thick with prosperous citizens enjoying their coffee with whipped cream. But in the end it was a refugee, a single, haunted man, looking nervously over his shoulder as he scuttled down a long subway corridor toward freedom, who pointed up Huntley's point: "It seems...
...them aren't listening. They're just being polite." The National Science Foundation feels differently, has given Dr. Segal a $21,000 grant in the hope that his study of the slugs' ability to adjust to temperature may provide clues in helping humans adapt to tough environments-such as high altitudes or outer space...
Fish & Fiddle. Christopher Columbus Smith was born in 1861 in the treetopped village (pop. 1,200) of Algonac, Mich, on the St. Clair River. Algonac was a tough sailors' town situated in the midst of busy Great Lakes maritime commerce. There were a few small hotels, a general store, plenty of canvasback and redhead ducks, walleyed pike, yellow perch, black bass and an occasional sturgeon-and lots of sitting...
...Will Obey." After his father's death in 1891, he seemed to rededicate himself, in a sense, to the Sherman tradition. He attended Army of the Tennessee reunions, took such tough stands on national issues -"Socialism asks us to vote for the dishonor of our mothers"; "The man who shoots an anarchist on sight is a public benefactor"-that his Jesuit superiors pulled him off speaking tours. In 1898 he volunteered for duty as an Army chaplain, served in Puerto Rico...
...Crimson varsity, reeled off an amazing series of victories over highly regarded teams, including the Amherst and M.I.T. first pairs and the Yale second pair. The Crimson's first team, Bowditch and Captain Ned Weld, reached the semi-finals, where they were beaten by Dell and Freiberg in a tough three-set match...