Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...embattled Eisenhower Administration -will lean heavily upon the political talents of the new G.O.P. floor leader, hard-hitting Charlie Halleck, 58, of Rensselaer, Ind. (pop. 5,000). Hoosier state professionals, players in as rough a practical political game as the country knows, rate curly-haired, paunchy Charlie Halleck a tough and ruthless performer, who has been often battered but never beaten in 35 years of office-holding. Old hands in the House, where he is a twelve-termer and twelve-year veteran as G.O.P. No. 2 man, rank him as "an Indiana politician with brains," a blunt, hard-driving scrapper...
Public opinion backed tough measures. Reason: in weed-clogged ditches, in police-station cellars and in shallow, unmarked graves, hundreds of Cuban families were searching for the bodies of their rebel sons, slain by the cops. One abandoned well in the western province of Pinar del Rio yielded 13 decomposing corpses...
...Russians choose to release. Dr. Kuiper believes that the moon's surface is blazing with radioactivity. On the earth, he says, the thick layer of air is the shielding equivalent of 3 ft. of lead or 33 ft. of water, protects the surface from many kinds of tough radiation beating down from space. Kuiper believes that the moon is radioactively contaminated to a depth of 30 ft. below the surface...
...Captain Charlie Hamm, the squash team defeated a tough and determined Williams squad, 9 to 0, yesterday on the Hemenway courts. The Ephmen were able to win only five games from the Crimson, whose record now stands...
...seems like it when you play Rupp." Rupp himself cares little about the effect his self-centered personality has on others. Says he: "I am not engaged in a popularity contest. I want to win basketball games." So far this season, Kentucky has won them all in tough competition, e.g., St. Louis, West Virginia, Maryland, at week's end ran its record to 11-0 by dumping Georgia Tech...