Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Times Are Tougher." Obviously, many of the Ninth's voters did not view this election as they saw the presidential election last November, when Eisenhower got 84,000 votes to Stevenson's 46,000. Considerably less than half as many voted. There was no doubt that some farmers who had voted for Eisenhower voted against the man who was running on his name. In the dairy-farming district, farmers were worried about the slump in prices of cattle and other farm products. They were disturbed because Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, who spoke in the district three...
...voted Republican last year. I liked Eisenhower's speeches and promises then. There was that Korean mess, and Ike said he could finish it-and he did. I thought he could do something about farm prices, too, but he hasn't yet, and times are getting tougher .. . Two weeks ago I shipped two cows . . . One cow brought me $90 and the other $120.80 . . . That's $210 for two cows. Why, under Truman, you got that much...
...third day, 430 Chinese P.W.s turned up for explanations, but lashed at the explainers, spat at them, kicked at their shins and bellies, until Indian guards were called on to hold them back. The Communists too were tougher: they tried to coerce the P.W.s in violation of the neutral commission ground rules, and they were not always stopped by the Indian chairmen. "We have 90 days to explain to you," one explainer said, "and we will talk to you time and again if you don't come with us now." One lied: "Taiwan has been overrun and Chiang...
...This is a fact that even we of the 'Prince' had to learn the hard way. At the beginning of the season we called for tougher opposition than Lafayette and Rutgers. As it turned out, we thought the Lafayette and Rutgers games were quite exciting, thank...
...play has to do with a husband, his wife and her lover (Roland Culver, Anne Vernon, Colin Gordon) shipwrecked on a tropical island. For impudent light comedy, there could be no brighter situation to start off with, and no tougher one to follow up. The moves may be almost as clearly indicated as in chess,, but as in chess there can be tedious waits between them. In The Little Hut, first the bland British husband is carefully told what goes on, then the obliging wife is openly shared. The lover, in the process, turns as growlsome as a husband...