Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev's tough talk probably speeded an agreement between Christian Democrat Adenauer and Socialist Brandt. The two conferred for an hour at Adenauer's home on the line to be taken in Sunday's foreign ministers conference in Paris. Brandt emerged from the talk with the brisk anouncement...
...Shah "the Great," who rose from army noncom to the throne of the King of Kings and who showed his displeasure immediately, as when he once dragged a losing jockey from his horse and publicly kicked him in the belly. The young Shah knows that Iran needs a strong, tough hand like his father's, but he cannot bring himself to behave that way. He used to be sensitive to the fact that though his title was old, his dynasty had begun only with his father. But increasingly the Shah has shown a self-confidence to match his character...
...Cowles family picked tough ground for missionary work. In tradition, at least, the nation's heartland has long been indifferent to foreign news, except in time of war. Buzzing gadflies in this calm atmosphere, the Cowles papers go far beyond filling their front pages with stories on international affairs from their hardworking five-man Washington bureau headed by Dick Wilson, 53. Their editorial pages take positions that are unusual for the Midwest and downright surprising for Republican publishers: they have damned the policies of Dwight Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles, praised Dean Acheson, bemoaned Chiang Kai-shek (a "lonely...
...Line Pilots Association, led by President Clarence Sayen, 39, also talked tough. Sayen, once a professional pilot for Braniff, blasted American Airlines as having the "worst goddamned labor relations of practically any industry." For 17 months at American, company and union have been feuding not only over the third man but over hefty demands for higher pay, shorter hours for pilots (65 in the air instead of the present 85 a month), fatter retirement benefits, increased meal and overnight room allowances. The big item is pay. The average DC-7 captain gets $19,221 a year: American is offering...
...combination of reasons, mainly the strength of the league, it would be unjust to blithely predict that the Crimson will breeze to another second place in their perennial position behind Yale. The prospects portend a tough, but hopeful, season in the I.A.B...