Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fifty-Niners," an eager motorcade of 37 pioneers who left Detroit last March to make their homes in the new state. Beset by breakdowns and inept leadership ("Thirty minutes after we left Detroit we were lost," says a newsman who accompanied the expedition), the group has since had tough going. But vivid reporting of the Fifty-Niners' trials has deterred none of a second contingent from Michigan: some 550 men, women and children have registered at $25 a head, will set out in a 100-car train later this month...
...nine years Baldy has sought to depict the plight of the reasonable Southerner who, like himself, stands aghast between the extremists. He has, for example, shown two antagonists locked in mortal combat, one labeled "Reality," the other labeled "Tradition." The caption: "It's a tough fight, Ma!" Baldy put "Reality...
...important than the strictness, or permissiveness of the school. A system that ignores the worst kind of profanity in the classroom, and that encourages children to write corrosively candid weekly reports on their teachers, does not sound promising. But for Born Teacher Braithwaite it worked very well. When the tough-kid class graduated, its gift to Braithwaite was inscribed: "To Sir, with Love...
Coach Jack Barnaby was very pleased with the fine tennis both Vinton and Lemann played, and commented that "if they play this well next Thursday, Yale is in for a tough time at four and five." Bill Wood remains at number six, followed by Jim Cameron, Pete Smith (winner over Laurie Pratt yesterday), Pratt and Scott Custer...
Considered a definite underdog to Hoehn (who gave Yale's Don Dell two tough sets last Saturday), Weld dropped the first two games, then reeled off eight in a row. Hoehn managed to pull up to 4-3 in the second set with a service break, but Weld broke his opponent in the eighth game, winning the final point on a beautiful crosscourt forehand that just nicked the tape...