Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this was about his 30th mission to Dienbienphu. What's it like? "Haven't you heard? The Viets have flak guns," he replied. "It gives you some interesting sensations. Forgive us please, messieurs, there's no sugar for the coffee." Sergeant K. interrupted: "It's tougher on the ground." Sergeant H. continued: "Last night we had to make six passes over the drop zone. The first one was O.K. Then the Viets spotted us. Tracers came up zzzt zzzt zzzt all around us. Our plane was hit 13 times." That sort of shooting at night...
...event, it can't be tougher than the first two football games last fall," Popell says...
After his long siege of illness, Anthony Eden at 56 is feeling robust again and eager to take over as the Queen's first minister. His bout with the Russians at Berlin whetted his zest, and he came home with a tougher view about dealing with the Kremlin than that suggested by Sir Winston's still-evident yearning for a sweeping parley at the summit...
RACIAL-equality clause, now being rewritten by the Government's contracts committee, will be much tougher. It will forbid discrimination by Government contractors in "employment, upgrading, demotion or transfer, recruitment, recruitment advertising, layoff . . . rates of pay . . . and selection for training...
...city's biggest printing plants and put out 150,000 copies of the paper. Though the government soon took legal control of the plant, L'Unità has been allowed to rent the presses ever since. If it wanted to, the government could make things tougher for L'Unità by refusing to let it use the presses. But the government has shown no signs of doing so, even though the paper makes plain where its allegiance lies...