Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wives I know spend half their tough, 16-hour workday kaffeeklatsching. ELIZABETH SCOTT Salt Lake City
...campus stretching 3,000 miles across Canada, one of the continent's most unusual schools gives muscles to soft college boys and book learning to tough laborers. See EDUCATION, Bush Teachers...
There was a real danger that the U.S.British-French united front that Herter mortared together at Paris a fortnight ago (TIME, May 11) might show cracks under the stresses of Soviet probing. And the Soviet delegation, headed by tough Andrei Gromyko, would be ready to broaden and exploit any Western fissures. Even before the conference got under way, the Russians started the probing by demanding a conference-table seat for the East German puppet government. And while Nikita Khrushchev genially popped over to inspect the U.S. exhibit abuilding for the Moscow fair last week, the West caught an echo...
When things are at their worst in Jordan, Samir Rifai is summoned. But when the desperate hours have passed, rival courtiers and politicians complain against the tough little Premier's hardfisted ways, and out he goes. Last week, buoyed by a two months' world tour, full of cheer and confidence, assured of the U.S.'s continued $50 million-a-year financial subsidy, young (23) King Hussein abruptly ended the fifth premiership in 15 years of his able but unpopular strongman. It was a sure sign that the King felt safely past the crisis created in Amman...
...running has tightened enough to produce one of the most potent backfields in the league, while the forwards, always strong and aggresive in the lineouts, have become adept at heeling the ball to the backs. If the Crimson can avoid injuries during the contest, it could provide some extremely tough opposition for the Nomads...