Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...natural, see? We got these two railroad companies fighting for the right to run a track over the gorge, one bossed by a tough guy (we'll put a beard on him) who is a louse, and the other by a tougher guy (clean shaven) who's O.K. Then he can fall for this pretty secretary, who's really a spy for the other side. The good company ("without whose help and cooperation this picture could never have been filmed") will have this old general, loved and respected by all his men, as the capitalist in charge. Then there...
...Even tougher talk came from Witness No. 2. Lieut. General Ennis C. Whitehead, one of MacArthur's top airmen in World War II and boss of U.S. air defense from 1949 until he retired last summer. He pleaded for the fastest possible creation of a minimum air force: an atomic "strike force" ready to take off on retaliatory raids within a few hours after an attack on the U.S.; enough transports to service the strike force at overseas bases, and fighters to escort the bombers on their missions; at least 30 wings of all-weather jet fighters to intercept...
...Yardling boat, which won all its races by a narrow margin, is in a tougher situation: both the Princeton and Yale freshman crews are reportedly strong...
Last week's crash also precipitated action against the nation's other 51 non-sked operators. Washington drastically tightened up their operating regulations, e.g., tougher pilot qualifications, better maintenance. In view of the fact that the non-skeds carried 586,952 passengers in 1951 alone, the crackdown was plainly long overdue...
Others sided with H. W. Eiser, who called work here "very much tougher" than his job of superintending transportation for United Gas Corp. Theodore I. Marine of the Pennsylvania Railroad, admitted "It would be somewhat of a relief to have a job I'm accustomed...