Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case, but he added somewhat sharply that offering a solution is "their problem," i.e., the problem of Dwight Eisenhower and his close advisers. The problem extends below Wilson: three of the men named as his top aides also have stock in companies doing business with the Defense Department. A tougher case than Wilson's is that of Robert Ten Broeck Stevens, a textile manufacturer, who was appointed Secretary of the Army. His firm, J. P. Stevens & Co. of New York City, does a third (about $125 million a year) of its business with the Defense Department, mostly in cloth...
Mangrum's wife, his constant traveling companion, acts as business manager and secretary. "I need her," explains Mangrum. "This is big business." But at 38 Mangrum no longer feels that he is up to the demands of continuous tournament play. He also' feels that the competition is tougher than in Ben Hogan's heyday. "Those who have been trying for years are now coming into their own," tie says. "It used to be that four or five good players would take all the tournaments. Now there are 30 or 40 potential winners. That means...
...generally considered the world's top amateur. The big match was rained out twice before it finally began this week. Then Sedgman, who relies heavily on his speed afoot, found the wet grass courts slippery going. He found Seixas' booming service and tantalizing drop shots even tougher to handle. Seixas won, 8-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, and became the first U.S. player to win the Victorian Championship since Don Budge...
Taking Wood's place until he returns is Doug Manchester, high-scorer for last year's freshmen. "Manchester has good ability," Weiland states, "but is playing in a tougher league than before. He needs to work harder and get experience, and then he will handle himself all right...
...week assumed emergency powers to punish whole villages (by confiscating of crops and livestock) for crimes committed in their vicinity. Jomo Kenyatta, exiled boss of the Kenya African Union (KAU), was hauled before a British district commissioner formally charged with "managing the Mau Mau." Many white settlers proposed still tougher measures. There was talk of evicting the whole Kikuyu tribe (one million strong) from its tribal lands, and white-whiskered Colonel Ewart Grogan, 78, the oldest member of Kenya's Legislative Council, gruffly suggested: "Hang the Mikuyu in batches of 25 in public, and send witnesses of the executions...