Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France will not trust its allies "we are before a crisis of extreme gravity," Conservative Deputy Raymond Triboulet jeeringly retorted: "You're not before one, you're in one." At Gaillard's protestations of U.S. solidarity with France, Jean-Marie Le Pen, a right-wing tough elected as a Poujadist, interrupted: "Of the two dangers that menace the independence of France-Bolshevik Russia and the United States-the latter is by far the worse." Then the banderilleros retired, and Gaillard found himself face to face with burly Gaullist Jacques Soustelle, the man whom Frenchmen have come...
...lightweights, victorious over M.I.T. last week, will race the Tech oarsmen again along with Navy for the Haines cup. The Middies lost a close race to Princeton last Saturday and should provide tough competition for the Crimson...
Johnny wasted no time. One day he turned up in London to keep Lana company. But by then, Lana Turner was wearying of Johnny, and Johnny was too tough to let himself be discarded. They fought. Once he nearly strangled her, grabbed a razor and threatened to cut her face. Lana's studio friends heard about it, got Scotland Yard to get Johnny out of the country...
Irreverent Remedy. At the Eleventh Plenum of Poland's Communist United Worker's Party two months ago, tough-minded Wladyslaw Gomulka, who rose to power partially on the strength of his outspoken criticism of his predecessors' economic bungling, argued that impoverished Poland could no longer afford such inefficiency. His remedy: mass dismissal of surplus, lazy and unskilled workmen. In effect, he tacitly confessed that the price of Communist full employment is intolerably low productivity and a uniform level of poverty. A handful of hardcore Stalinists who have never reconciled themselves to Gomulka's lack of reverence...
Cuba's fanatic, poorly armed rebels last week tried to smash President Fulgencio Batista with the ultimate weapon of civilian revolutions: the general strike. But Batista, a tough, wilier strongman than such fallen dictators as Argentina's Perón or Venezuela's Pérez Jiménez, saw the blow coming, prepared well, warded it off with hardly a bruise...