Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most reliable" cops, the black-helmeted troopers of the Compagnie Républicaine de Sécurité. And when the C.R.S. men finally did reach the island (aboard a chartered Air France plane), their first act was to surrender to a handful of Massu's paratroopers. Cried tough Jules Moch: "I'm not sure of anyone any more...
...general ordered Lieut. Colonel George Flint, Canadian chairman of the Israeli-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission, to go to the spot, bring about a cease-fire and arrange for the evacuation of the wounded. Colonel Flint, a tough, wiry Korean war veteran, had been badly wounded by an exploding mine on Mount Scopus two years before. He set forth immediately for the Arab village of Issawiya, on the Jordanian sector of Mount Scopus. Checking fast, he learned that four members of an Israeli police patrol lay wounded at the edge of the Israeli zone where they had been...
...Tough Criticism. After mopping up with paper towels at Pittsburgh's Syria Mosque, the commissioners (delegates) celebrated the Lord's Supper and sang hymns together in a jubilance of union that moved many of them to tears. Then they buckled down to business, unanimously elected their first Moderator: Ohio-born Dr. Theophilus Mills Taylor, 48, a teacher and architect for four years before studying for the United Presbyterian ministry, now professor of New Testament literature and exegesis at Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary...
Resolution No. 1, passed by an overwhelming voice vote, was a 2,500-word document, disarmingly titled "In Unity-for Mission," that contained some remarkably tough criticism of Presbyterians Eisenhower and Dulles. The resolution, which is slated to become a message to the 9,462 congregations of the new denomination, attacked what it called "the contemporary myth of the free world." The U.S., it declared, "counts among its allies some nations which are in no sense free. By our actions we proclaim to the world that lands where human freedom is utterly dead can qualify for membership in the free...
...shock of opening. When the falling speed was reduced still more, explosive bolts freed the recovery package, the parachute was unreefed and its powerful drag pulled the package a short distance away from the hot shell of the nose cone, preserving it from heat damage. Then a small, tough balloon popped out of the side of the package and was inflated with compressed air. An automatic knife cut its air hose, allowing the balloon to drag behind and making the chute take most of the shock of landing...