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Word: tough (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson trouble in the middle distance races, McCurdy predicted, and Donald Silpe may prove too strong for Sandy Dodge in the dash. Terrier miler Bob Wells and high jumper Neil Morgan will allow the favored Crimson trackmen little margin for error, and Arthur Reed could give Landau a tough time in the hurdle event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Squad to Encounter B.U. In Season's First Meet Tonight | 12/17/1958 | See Source »

Smart, Strong & Tough." At 4:30 and again at 5:30, Humphrey made motions toward leaving, but each time Khrushchev waved him back to his chair. At 7, dinner (beef, ham, wild fowl, etc.) was brought in, topped by a toast in Armenian brandy. At dinner's end, Humphrey made a forthright suggestion. "I agree," said Nikita Khrushchev, and the two tromped oft to a Kremlin lavatory, were soon back at the conference table. At 9, Anastas Mikoyan dropped by, and the talk returned to trade. At 9:30 it occurred to Humphrey that his wife might be worried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: 8 | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

Only a month after the congressional elections that some pundits called a landslide for liberal spenders and a month before the President's budget message goes to Congress-a key congressional Democrat and a key Administration moneyman laid down similar, tough arguments against a spending spree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BUDGET: Bipartisan Purse-Watching | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

Birmingham's best-known Negro leader, the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, a tough, thick-skinned, egocentric sort, has had his home bombed, his church bombed. Arrests in the case to date: nil. So Shuttlesworth has taken his protection into his own hands, now musters a guard of a dozen or so Negro volunteers at his church and home every night on shifts dusk to dawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: BIRMINGHAM: Integration's Hottest Crucible | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...kits sold), launched his own 89? version of the atomic submarine Nautilus in 1953 six months before General Dynamics Corp. Other bestsellers this year: the Bomarc antiaircraft missile (457,000 kits) and the Talos missile (443,000 kits sold since its October introduction). All are intended to be "tough but rewarding to builders from age six on up." Surprisingly, adults make up 40% of the kit market. Says Glaser: "We lose most boys at about age 15; they turn to other hobbies such as girls. But then they marry, and as soon as they have a six-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOYS: Models to Mars | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

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