Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshmen require a slightly different approach. Prominently displayed on their bulletin board are evidences of Eli pomposity and self-esteem from the Yale Daily News, such as, "Bullpup Gridders: Small But Tough," and "Bullpups Trample Dartmouth, 16-6, Posting Third Consecutive Victory." A short note taped on one of the lockers reads, "Yale has ordered tubs in which to ice refreshments to celebrate their victory...
...booth that Manhattan Methodman Lee Strasberg prescribed for "getting into" a part (hers: a uke-playing songbird of the '20s). Marilyn ordered gawkers kicked off the set, banned cussing crewmen, played love scenes with Leading Man Tony Curtis as if enclosed in a cake of ice. It was tough on Curtis, a simpler type who can still exclaim: "Gee, Marilyn Monroe makin' love to me!" Marilyn also huffily rebuffed Producer-Director Billy Wilder's smallest advice ("You'll make me forget how I'm going to do this scene"). A mild man, Wilder survived...
...airlines the jet age has already dawned over the Atlantic with the start of Pan American World Airways' service to Paris.* But for countless Americans, it will not arrive until American Airlines President Cyrus Rowlett Smith, 59, a tough, hardworking boss who has built his line into the nation's biggest, sends an American jet winging off on the first transcontinental jet flight, two months hence...
...often rides the line alone on weekends, keeping tab on everything. His seamed, jowly face has become a familiar sight to stewardesses, pilots and mechanics, as he samples the food, checks the service, asks questions-all the while jotting notes on pieces of scrap paper. A rough and tough man's man, he often peppers his speech with four-letter words, can shoot out orders like a gunslinger on the loose. Recently he saw an American Airlines sign on a road leading to Detroit's Metropolitan airport, snapped: "Who the hell put that up?" He had noticed that...
...even with the economy in good health, a high Administration official wanly predicted last week, a deficit looms for fiscal 1960. With the costs of national defense, welfare programs and farm subsidies edging ever higher, budget makers will find it tough to hold 1960 spending below the current year's $80 billion mark, tough to avoid a deficit of about $5 billion. Fondest Administration hope: by the time President Eisenhower submits his fiscal 1961 budget in January 1960, he will once again be able to point to a balanced budget...