Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that the winning margin of G.O.P. Senator Margaret Chase Smith was off twelve percentage points from her margin in 1948. Likewise the winning margins of her three congressional running mates were off by an average twelve percentage points from 1952. Granted that they were running against tougher candidates; this, in itself, betokened better Democratic organization. A national trend one-half that strong would mean disaster for the Republicans this fall...
Among large corporations, no decline in spending is expected for 1954. The biggest spenders, according to current expectations, will be the automakers, retooling and expanding for an even tougher sales race ahead. They will spend $1.5 billion this year, up 30% from 1953. The biggest drop will be registered by railroads, whose earnings have suffered from the decline in freight revenues...
Long & Bitter. Paradoxically, the Government's hands-off policy, while cutting down on the number of strikes, has tended to make them longer and more bitter. Management, now operating in a friendly political atmosphere-and struggling to keep profits up-can afford to take a tougher line than before...
Pinay got tougher: "You exactly predicted our majority yesterday . . . But you omitted yourself-the influence you could have had in the vote if you had worked for ratification . . . The Soviet Machiavelli desires a government which would ruin the [Atlantic] alliance in pretending to defend it. Such a government, I hasten to add, is not yours. But if it existed, it would do what you are doing...
...tougher followers drove him half-crazy simply by knowing that he was incapable of being the man he pretended to be. When the Duce tried to conduct the Ethiopian war from his office chair, Marshal Badoglio only growled: "What fool in Rome is telegraphing this rubbish to me?" and curtly cabled back: "Leave me alone...