Word: tough
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mathias felt that the Haynsworth nomination was an appeal to sectionalism and to the right. He also believed that it threatened the court's standards. So he cast his negative vote-but with sorrow. "It's been such a tough ordeal because you wanted to stick with the President. And then compassion for Haynsworth makes it very personal. So you have all the wrenching of loyalties and compassion pulling against your sense of truth, and you know that people have entrusted you with this kind of decision. So you just have to do the best you can with...
...fathers have ever set out so deliberately to found a political dynasty-although the Kennedys were too close together to be called dynastic. The denouement of his dream was especially bitter for a man whose tough pride in name and faith in success amounted almost to hubris. For most of the decade of his sons' triumphs, he was paralyzed and speechless following a stroke the year after Jack's inauguration...
Nixon requested tough new powers to retaliate against countries that erect "unfair" barriers to American exports, or unfairly subsidize their own foreign commerce. Nixon also asked Congress for changes in current law to make it easier for industries, companies or groups of workers that have been hurt by imports to win relief through temporary import restrictions. "To be fair to our trading partners does not require us to be unfair to our own people," he said...
...varsity soccer team took a long step towards the NCAA national championships yesterday afternoon as it trounced a tough Brown squad, 4-0, on the Business School Field. With this victory, the Crimson earned the right to play Hartwick, the District H champions, this Saturday...
...already clinched the Ivy League title before today's game, but it's always nice to beat Yale. The Crimson will play again on Monday, at home against Brown, in the second round of the NCAA regional tournament. Harvard beat Brown last weekend, but the Bruin should be tough on Monday...