Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manager of Governor Averell Harriman's re-election campaign. Reason: Tammany Chieftain Carmine De Sapio realized that he needed Powell more than Powell needed Tammany. Running in the primary as an independent, Powell trampled Party Choice Earl Brown by 3 to 1 (TIME, Aug. 25). Facing an increasingly tough opponent in Republican Nelson Rockefeller, Harriman and De Sapio decided to sacrifice pride for 50,000 key Harlem votes in Powell's pocket...
...Scalawags. Tough, jowly President Iskander Mirza, who once declared himself in favor of "controlled democracy," watched the drift to chaos with mounting disgust. Son of a wealthy Bengal family,*graduate of Britain's Sandhurst, a major general before independence, he had long regarded most politicians as "crooks and scalawags." A Moslem who drinks whisky, smokes, shoots and rides, Mirza has always been blunt about his aristocratic creed: "Democracy requires breeding. These illiterate peasants certainly know less about running a country than I do . . . There has to be someone to prevent the people from destroying themselves...
...Catholics were living in Communist-ruled countries. Again and again, he ringingly condemned Communism as an atheistic and materialistic evil, arch enemy of God and of human rights. In the Communist-ruled countries, Pius XII had to find a harrowing way between the extremes of a tough anti-Communist line that might have destroyed the church through reprisals and a collaborationist line that might have destroyed the church just as surely through spiritual surrender. Poland's Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski and his precarious stand-off with the Red regime has shown that toughness can be combined with shrewd compromise...
...Next time St. Vincent's." He is "on" whenever he rides a plane. He likes to look down on the snow-covered Rockies and say to a stranger sitting next to him: "Looky there. I wonder what that means. HELP. Oops . . . there it goes. Snow blowed over it. Tough luck, Jack...
...adopt the "45/45" system, in which each record groove is pressed with two sound tracks, angled at 45°. Thus one machine will play most stereo records. Stereo sounds richer on tape, although sales of stereo tapes this year will hit only about $3,000,000 because they are tough to thread and are expensive (about $16.95 for 60 minutes' playing time). But major companies are now planning a simplified tape system...