Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Richard Nixon a week later. A fortnight ago, Rosenthal described Polish Communist Party Leader Gomulka as a "moody, irascible" man whose "leadership has created rifts that could grow." The immediate cause for last week's expulsion appeared to be a story that the Polish government, getting even tougher, had brought a former Stalinist from diplomatic exile for a high army post...
Mike McKeever-fast, rock-hard and big (6 ft. 1 in., 220 lbs.)-is the tougher of U.S.C.'s famed McKeever twins (TIME, Oct. 26). Last week, studying films of the U.S.C.-California game (U.S.C. 14, Cal 7), the president and chancellor of the University of California leveled serious charges against U.S.C.'s star lineman. While Cal's Halfback Steve Bates lay spilled on his back, out of bounds, after an 11-yd. run, McKeever had piled on him. The play was over, yet "McKeever not only continued his forward momentum but changed course towards Bates...
...more than 2,300 patients), partly because it is the biggest employer in Ogdensburg (pop. 17,000). Many city officials, including the mayor, are on the hospital staff. Ogdensburgers pay little attention when patients with downtown privileges wander through the stores. For Dr. Hunt at Hudson River, it was tougher. Poughkeepsie (pop. 40,500) is all but surrounded by custodial institutions, some for violent criminals, and the people of Dutchess County have a horror of escapes. But Dr. Hunt now has 96% of his patients in unlocked wards...
...York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller moved out to the tougher side of the Eisenhower Administration, argued on a TV show that the U.S. ought to resume nuclear testing-presumably on Dec. 31, the date President Eisenhower has set as the deadline for a workable Russian agreement on test inspection. Said Rockefeller: "I think that we cannot afford to fall behind in the advanced techniques of the use of nuclear material. I think those testings could be carried on, for instance, underground, where there would be no fallout." Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, chairman of the Senate Disarmament Subcommittee, countered...
...week's end Nehru himself was beginning to talk tougher. Thousands cheered as he told a Congress Party rally that, though Red China is full of "the arrogance of might," India will not be intimidated. "China may be a big country, but India is not small," said Nehru. "We are not afraid. We are not weak...