Word: toughener
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...Heap O' Livin'. In Hartford, Conn., Salesman John Holmes, advertising in the Courant, offered to sell ". . . 40 acres of Pin Oaks and Black snakes. Old-world charm includes sagging floors, tortuous stairway and draughty fireplaces . . . Dandy opportunity to toughen up wife and kiddies ..." reported several nibbles the first...
...sissy game played by "pawers and taggers" instead of blockers and tacklers. Unlike most old diehards, "Pudge" could prove his point, and he did, at an age when most men shrink from strong exercise. In 1916, when he was 48, Pudge went back to Yale to help toughen up a later generation for the big games with Princeton and Harvard. In three scrimmage plays he laid out five varsity linemen, sent one to the hospital with three broken ribs...
...Sultan of Nejd, grew up lean and strong, ignorant of book learning, but a whirlwind in the saddle and a master of desert wile. As a boy, he was made by his father to ride bareback and walk the blistering desert rocks barefoot each midday to toughen himself for a career of revenge against the enemies of his line. At 20, he set out at the head of his Wahabi tribesmen to regain the sand and oases that had been wrested from his illustrious forebears, the Sauds, by the House of Rashid...
...captive peoples. To please the Democrats and the State Department professionals, the resolution carefully avoided condemnation of the Yalta and Potsdam agreements. But Republicans, including Ike, had condemned the treaties roundly all through the campaign. Now the resolution was shelved, perhaps for good, because Republicans who wanted to toughen it were placed in the awkward position of fighting the President while the Democrats supported...
...Field Artillery at Madison Barracks, New York. When his enlistment ran out he tried civilian life for only a little more than a month before re-enlisting. "I guess the military life was in the blood." But when he went back in, the peacetime army was beginning to toughen up for a war which came soon afterwards...