Word: toughener
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...this week 4,000 young Moroccans hacked away with pick, shovel and sledge hammer, gouging a road out of the wilderness. Even for the peasants who made up three-quarters of the group, the work was exhausting, as temperatures simmered up over 100°. City boys desperately tried to toughen their torn hands with tannin from the bark of cork trees. The work was hard, and nobody got paid-but the whole business was somehow satisfying. The young nation of Morocco was building something for itself...
...Martin. That evening Joe Martin was ushered upstairs to the President's study and bluntly told Ike that the House Appropriations Committee was about to make heavy Defense bill slashes. Really shocked at the prospect of a crippling cut-perhaps as much as $2.5 billion-Ike determined to toughen his speech...
Clearly, there are many "ifs" in the 1957-58 squash picture. A lot depends on the development of the newcomers to the team and how they bear up under varsity competition. If Barnaby can, as he says, "toughen them up," they will certainly form the basis of a well-balanced team, and if Sears and Hamm can step into the shoes of Heckscher and Place--even if it means stuffing some paper in the toes--the Crimson should hold its own at the top of the scale...
...each of its past three wars, the U.S. has paid heavily for lack of a sizable domestic tungsten industry. Each time it has been gouged by foreign producers for the vital metal needed to toughen high-grade steels. After the Korean war, when world prices per standard 20-lb. unit leaped from $18 to $90, the Government finally began 1) stockpiling tungsten for defense and 2) fostering a domestic industry with a $30 million annual subsidy to buy U.S. tungsten at $63 per unit, about twice the world market price. Last week the tungsten subsidy was blasted from an unexpected...
Since then the girls have worked as hard as ever. Gut-wrenching wind sprints, body-building exercises, clowning relays with the girls swimming in pajamas or blowing up balloons between laps, all combine to melt the teen-age fat from their hips, harden their midriffs and toughen their arms. Somehow they also find the strength to practice the fine points of flip turns and racing starts...