Word: tougher
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Although St. Lawrence and McGill are largely unknown quantities in the tourney, Boston College will probably be tougher to beat than they were last time. As of last week the predominantly sophomore Eagle sextet had no smooth passing attack, a rare deficiency in teams coached by Snooks Kelley. B.C. should develop playmaking ability as the season progresses and should therefore become tougher to beat with each game...
...civilians got tougher treatment. Twenty-four-year-old John Thomas Downey of New Britain, Conn., a cousin of singer Morton Downey, and onetime captain of the Yale wrestling team, was sentenced to life imprisonment. Richard G. Fecteau, 27, of Lynn, Mass., whose parents told newsmen he had been working for Army intelligence, was given a 20-year sentence...
...short run, one effect of Western Europe's comeback was that U.S. businessmen would find themselves meeting tougher European competition in their export markets. But it also meant a healthy decline in European dependence on U.S. aid (which had made much of the recovery possible). Western Europe's comeback also meant stronger allies and better markets. Most of all, it meant that Frenchmen, Germans, Dutchmen, Britons and Italians, who had gone without for so long, at last were coming closer to the good food, new clothes, shining cars and comforts that Americans take as a matter of course...
Monnet's vision was of a Europe in which nations would progressively sacrifice chunks of their sovereignty for the common good. Pierre Mendès-France, France's new man of the hour, has substituted a tougher, harder-bargaining diplomacy in which nations make accommodations and pacts with one another, but jealously cling to their sovereign authority. In this he has the powerful support of the British Foreign Office, which instinctively prefers the more pragmatic, national approach. At the London Conference, the new pragmatism paid off triumphantly in the seven-nation Western European Union...
...have its drawbacks, however, when the H.A.A. must look outside the University for its new coaches. It will be tough on a new man to break in green oarsmen when he's green himself. And it will be tougher on his crew who lost a sense of coaching continuity from one season to the next...