Word: tougher
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...rapid Argentine was being remarkably casual with a big if. In all the Grand Prix circuit (including Le Mans. Italy's Mille Miglia and Britain's Grand Prix at Silverstone), no course is tougher on cars than the 5.2-mile tangle of flat-turn runways and taxiways at Sebring's abandoned airfield. Drivers have to hit the brakes and shift down at least 19 times for each lap (there is one tight hairpin without sign of bank and a wicked assortment of other unbanked turns). Clutches, gearboxes and brakes take a frightful beating...
Hall's task is much broader-and harder-than the re-election of Eisenhower. Winning control of the House of Representatives is a tough goal-and control of the Senate a tougher one. Beyond the immediate electoral objectives of 1956 lies the long-range rehabilitation of the Republican Party, reduced to a minority by the Depression and the Roosevelt-Truman years...
...special personal plus to this presidential function. And for this reason the major task before him as he goes back to work is to re-establish in current terms the moral authority that has made the U.S. a hope and symbol through the long years of a much tougher kind of cold...
Nevertheless, today's contest with Yale is rated as practically a tossup by squash coach Jack Barnaby. "On their home courts, Yale will be as tough as, or tougher than Army," he said. The Crimson defeated the Cadets, 7 to 2, in their hardest fought match of the year...
Supersonic flight called for entirely new wings and new controls, developed by working with electronic computers and countless wind-tunnel models. Fuselage design was an even tougher problem. When Convair's F-102 was first designed, the fuselage swept straight back from nose to tail. In the air, the F-102 was beset by mysterious buffeting as it approached the sound barrier. Only after extensive tests did engineers discover the trouble: shock waves were piling up where the wings joined the fuselage...