Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eleven seem safe: Florida, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Washington (Democrat Edmund Muskie unseated Republican Senator Fred Payne in Maine's September election). But Republican incumbents are breathing fairly easy only in four states: Delaware, Nebraska, North Dakota and Ohio. The tough Senate scraps...
...free bus to the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., "The Prime Minister" told reporters he would be "put in solitary for 30 days, but I'm not really bitter." Rolling across the Jersey Meadows, he might well have recalled a favorite axiom learned during his East Harlem youth: "Tough times make monkeys eat red peppers...
...client with about ten refrigerated warehouses full of pork sausages. He can't ship them overseas now that the waterfront's tied up, and it looks like the whole bloody mess is going to go stale if we can't sell them right here. This is a tough town to sell pork sausages in. We are bucking years of tradition. What...
Injuries notwithstanding, Yovicsin insists that this will be "a very tough game." Pennsylvania, he points out, played Dartmouth on even terms when the Indians were at full strength. And they have defeated a solid Brown team...
Last Saturday's inspired defensive performance against the tough Dartmouth eleven lowered the varsity's average to only 192.7 yards allowed per game. The Crimson also ranks first in rushing defense, having held its three opponents to an average of 122.3 yards per contest, and stands third in pass defense, with a mark of 70.3 yards per game...