Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual in the Naples marketplace. the slight dark-haired man who stopped by the parked car talked tough. "I hear you've been looking for me," he said as he reached into the car's open window and tweaked the chin of the chubby-cheeked girl inside. "Here...
...Miss Rovegliano." Little Doll first met Big Pasquale when, as a buxom peasant girl of 19, she won a beauty contest and became "Miss Rovegliano." They got along fine together until Big Pasquale ran afoul of an old friend, tough-talking Tony Esposito. There had been bad blood between the two men ever since Big Pasquale did time for hitting a man with a monkey wrench. When he got out of jail, he found that Tony had taken over the business...
...helping the kids to identify. "Who's always writin' on the wall?/ Who's always goofin' in the hall?/ Who's always throwin' spitball?" Why, Charlie Brown, of course. Says Leiber: "If Cole Porter were starting out today, he'd have a tough time...
...slowing down at 71, the Archbishop had a direct word for his Anglicans. Said he, on his arrival in Tokyo: "My trip through the East to this point has left me untouched by mental, moral or physical indigestion. To be the Archbishop of Canterbury, you must be tough...
...just how the men of Parliament, aided by the Calvinist Scots, wound up the bright Cavalier cause, captured its fugitive leader and beheaded him. Their answer to flamboyant dash was the sturdy discipline of Cromwell's and Fairfax' "New Model army"; their retort to royal deceit was tough, businesslike cunning-along with an ironhandedness that eventually gave Cromwell the very absolutism he had denied to Charles...