Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BLARE of bands and crackling orders shattered the pineland quiet near Colorado Springs. The giant $133 million motel-like complex of aluminum and glass was ready at last. Into the U.S. Air Force Academy marched 1,148 cadets to face a tough, four-year program with the broadest curriculum yet devised for future U.S. military leaders. For news of their first days, their curious customs, and lingo as well, see EDUCATION, Home of the Doolies...
...Richmond, Governor Almond, 60, able lawyer, onetime Commonwealth attorney general, big wheel in the machine of U.S. Senator Harry Byrd, was the man who struck the South's first blow. He sent state troopers out of the capital to Norfolk, Charlottesville, Arlington, Prince Edward County, with a tough message warning the school boards not to assign Negroes to white schools under current pressure from federal courts. Was his message a warning, above all, to the Norfolk school board not to carry out its announced intention of assigning 17 Negroes to white schools? Said Almond: "Precisely that...
Anywhere, Any Time. Round Table's moneymaking skill comes mainly from a pair of homely virtues: he is placid and tough, ready to run anywhere, any time. He is indifferent to cross-continental flights (eight so far) that make other thoroughbreds airsick. He is at his best in races over a mile-and the longer the better. Despite his small frame, he has won eight handicap races carrying 130 Ibs. or more (neither Citation nor Nashua ever won carrying that much). Says Trainer Molter: "He hasn't even had a snotty nose since...
Every report of a treatment that prolongs the life of cancer victims demands the most skeptical scrutiny. Many such claims add up to cruel quackery, and others, by reputable men of medicine, have proved to be overoptimistic. Last week physicians had a tough job: evaluating a treatment proposed by a brilliant Canadian surgeon and reported in the Canadian Medical Association Journal...
...projects needed to develop the area around the dam. One big point in IDA's favor: it would lessen the pressure on the U.S. for shaky loans or grants. It would also cool the heat on the U.S. in another way. The U.S. has often had to talk tough to a borrower after loans were granted, to force him to put his fiscal house in order. A borrower would undoubtedly take such talk from the nations in the fund with much better grace...