Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Naming Parents. One of the strongest advocates of a tougher policy is Publisher Richard H. Amberg of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Until last December, his paper (circ. 300,375) was as careful as the Post-Dispatch (402,439) not to identify delinquents. Then three 16-year-old boys raped a 14-year-old girl. Amberg not only ran their names but wrote an editorial saying: "We feel that if somebody is old enough to rape a girl, he is old enough to get his name in the paper...
...Literally, cactus plants, used to distinguish the supposedly tougher natives from the tenderfoot newcomers...
This year's tournament, which will be held in Moscow on February 23, should find the United States in even tougher competition than in '55, according to Cleary...
...north lay an even tougher challenge with which neither Hammarskjold nor any of his men had yet come to grips-the barbaric Soviet repression of Hungary's fight for liberty. And behind these specific problems lay the two historic convulsions of the mid-20th century world: the upsurge of the peoples of Asia and Africa, and the conflict between Communism and democracy. The difficulties were immense. "For the first time in history," said Dwight Eisenhower, "an international machinery, set up by nations for the settlement of international disputes, is receiving a truly thorough test...
...eleven, however, faces a tougher assignment in its Yale game, also at 1:45. "It looks like it's going to be a rugged afternoon," said coach Norm Shepard yesterday, but he refused to predict anything...