Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...June 1942, as Vichy France proved unable to cope with the growing resistance against the Nazi occupation. Adolf Hitler dispatched egg-bald SS General Karl Oberg to Paris with orders to get tough. Oberg did. In the next two years as head of the Nazi security police in France, Oberg and his eagle-beaked adjutant, SS Colonel Helmuth Knochen, were responsible for the execution of more than 1,000 French hostages, the execution of underground resistance fighters at Mont Valérien and at the Cascade in Paris' beautiful park, the Bois de Boulogne, the extermination of hundreds...
...varsity. His opponent will be Steve Bank, who, like Gallwey, is small. Bank won over the slender lefty in the first Chapel Hill match but was trounced by Sears in the second. Although somewhat erratic, Gallwey has shown tremendous improvement this year, and will give Bank a tough match...
Tomorrow the golfers will travel to Middletown, Conn., to meet a strong Wesleyan team. With Seniors unable to make the trip because of General Examinations, the Crimson squad will be dominated by Sophomores and will be in for a very tough match...
...their frustrating and interminable war in Algeria, where cruelty answers cruelty, and heroism has its ugly necessities, the French have found one continuing source of solace: the dramatic exploits of a tough, leathery colonel named Marcel Bigeard. The son of a railway mechanic, Bigeard was a humdrum bank clerk in Toul when he was called up just before World War II. Today, a weatherbeaten and wiry 41, he is a legend...
Jones: That's pretty tough talk...