Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entered an eloquent appeal: "Billa is a pioneer of the new penitentiary doctrine which, so far as possible, would keep the prisoner from any contact with the prison." But all this was of no avail. Ex-Warden Billa was sentenced to serve three years at hard labor in a tougher prison, where liberté, égalité and fraternité are only words on official documents...
...Norman's instinct for power, and he marshaled his little world of words' like a master. In his ten productive years he wrote nearly 300 short stories, half a dozen novels, verse, plays, and a mass of journalism. The style of his stories gave a tougher skin to all fiction written since, and during his life (1850-93) he was a rich man and internationally famous...
Reason for the change, said Editor Ben Hibbs, was to give subscribers "an easier to read, more beautiful magazine." But the change was also prompted by something else: tougher competition. Though the Satevepost's circulation is edging up, and total advertising revenue increased $1,072,635 in the first half of 1955, advertising pages through September, 1955 slipped 4.7% below last year...
Illegal parking, whether on city streets or on University property, will also draw fines and possible disciplinary action as University and city police prepare to "get tougher than ever" with offending drivers. Residents may not park anywhere on University property during daylight hours without specific permission...
...that proud and querulous Robert Stroud often got prison bureaucrats sorely annoyed at him by insisting on his right to carry on scientific work in his cell. In 1942, exasperated officials put a halt to his researches: they sent him, in handcuffs and leg irons, from Leavenworth to tougher Alcatraz. He is there now, aged 65, still in solitary confinement. He has spent more time in solitary-39 years-than any other federal prisoner in U.S. history...