Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the St. Louis Post-Dispatch uncovered a Wimpy-like scheme thought up by tough, well-tailored Harold Gibbons, boss of Teamster Local 688 (9,000 members) and idea man for Teamster Czar Jimmy Hoffa. A free spender who ran through $63,000 in hotel tabs and other expenses in three years, Gibbons has set up a Local 688 charitable foundation to channel money to the United Fund and other St. Louis charities. Where is the money coming from? As new Local 688 contracts are negotiated, each employer will be required to kick in a dollar...
...match that coach Edo Marion called "too close for comfort," the varsity fencing team downed a tough and determined M.I.T. squad, 16 to 11, last night in Walker Memorial Gymnasium. A 7-2 victory in sabre and a 5-4 margin in epee counterbalanced a 4-5 defeat in foil for the Crimson...
Other Springfield standouts, according to Pickett, are Berger at 157 and Moses at 130. But the Gymnasts, he says, always field tough, well-balanced teams, and no Crimson wrestler can expect an easy contest tonight. Springfield, Pickett adds, is likely to prove "as tough for us as anyone we have faced...
Slate Shannon is the kind of guy who could find breathing room in a sealed bank vault. Tough as Mike Hammer, suave as Peter Gunn, canny as the D.A.'s Man, Bold Venture's hero digs gems out of camellia buds, teeth out of the other guy's mouth and dames out of the pad. Before the show had its first airing last month, its sunny, sexy sadism had attracted more than too TV stations. Yet Bold Venture has no network and will never know the mingled joy of a national Nielsen rating. Like many...
...planned only because of a variety of character flaws that each youngster more or less recognizes in himself. They are not even on the level with one another. When they play poker to see who will do the actual shooting, the cards are stacked by drunken Eduardo and tough-talking little Luis so that David, the kindest and weakest of the bunch, has to do the dirty work. The deed-getaway car and all-is planned coldly by Agustin, a young painter for whom art is not enough. The crime fails not because his plan is faulty but because David...