Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House Education and Labor Committee announced that it would soon start up a new probe into the administration of union welfare funds. Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell let it be known that his department was studying several different types of possible legislation. Beyond that, there was talk of tougher measures that labor experts ranging up to Secretary Mitchell deem restrictive, e.g., amendment of the Clayton Act so as to make labor unions subject, along with business, to monopoly laws. Said a high-ranking Government economist: "In the hands of one man there is the power to withhold all labor from...
...such an attitude, the first response of many Americans was apt to be apoplectic. But the summary objection to getting tougher with Nasser is that it only builds him up. So long as his position in Egypt and his influence on the Arab world depend on his keeping international and interracial conflict inflamed, Western badgering and blustering is apt only to enhance the fanatic image of Nasser as champion of the Arab masses...
...Mitrovica jail (Tito swotted up on Stalinism, Pijade , translated Das Kapital and smuggled it out to a printer) that when they took over, they made certain that their own victims had no such advantages. Visits to Mitrovica prison are few and far between today, guards are tougher, cells are no longer heated in winter. Kept in solitary is the jail's most dangerous prisoner: ex-Vice President Djilas...
...Tony Yates dies at last, after guzzling lukewarm champagne from the bottle, but not before he has shown himself tougher even than a U.S. visitor who thoughtfully retired to the more civilized climate of Texas. U.S. readers will appreciate Author Ronan's narrative gusto, his authentic, sometimes stomach-turning local color, and the chance to compare the U.S. and down-under forms of the western. Some differences spring to mind at once: Australian cowboys are called stockmen; they use 21-ft. whips rather than lariats; the noble redman of the plains is an ignoble blackfellow, i.e., aborigine; most important...
...tried the 50-mile grind in eight previous races and never finished better than fourth. Now he was 35, and the long trail that led from Sälen, near the Norwegian border, to the small town of Mora, deep in the picturesque province of Dalecarlia, looked tougher than ever. Weather on the course veered from dim to foul. At the starting line, mist lay heavy over the hilltops, and skis had to be waxed carefully for cold snow. Later the trail wound into warmer valleys, and Gunnar would have to stop and wax all over again. Downhill slopes, where...