Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With cataracts closing over both eyes, he explored the darkening continent for 10^ months and 40,000 miles without even a weekend off, ground out nine magazine articles on the road. Unable to read his minute reporter's scribble, he could never have finished the assignment if willowy, tough-fibered Jane had not been along. She scrawled notes on interviews, digested reams of background material, took thousands of photographs for Gunther to pore over back in Manhattan...
Name-Wonder. Before going off to the hospital, Gunther gallantly tossed a farewell shindig, insisted on greeting each guest without help, though he almost had to rub noses before he could recognize them. It was a typical gesture. Anything but the traditionally tough, cynical newsman, Gunther fairly quivers with delight at meeting people, deeply craves their approval. Says one intimate: "He has no acquaintances-only best friends...
Today at 68, Yardley still plays tight, winning poker. He is so tough a competitor that even before he published his book, friends at the National Press Club in Washington would desert his table and jump to another game the minute they saw a chance. Now that his warning to suckers is in circulation, he is finding it hard to get anybody to take a hand in a friendly little game...
...rare rebuff to tradition, every horse in the field cleared the first jump of England's Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree. But at the halfway mark, only 19 of the 31 starters were still running, and at the finish there were only seven. Even Mr. What, the tough little Irish gelding that had taken all the other jumps cleanly, almost came a cropper at the last hedge. But Mr. What kept his balance and won the richest Grand National ever ($46,858) by 30 lengths. In second place: last year's third-place horse, Tiberetta...
...them instead and adopt their alien gods. Even Gilead, the great judge, takes a heathen concubine to his bed and loves their son Jephta* more than his legitimate children. So, when Gilead dies, his other sons deny Jephta his inheritance and drive him into the wilderness. There Jephta grows tough and strong, and raises around his standard so doughty an army of outcasts and freebooters that, when enemies attack the tribe of Gilead, it is to Jephta that the tribesmen turn for help...