Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down by Truman in 1952. Nothing seemed to be going right for him. Before the week was out, a squirrel ran up his pants leg and bit his right thigh. Moaned Jimmy, after a nurse at the Beverly Hills emergency hospital cauterized the wound: "It seems things are getting tougher for Democrats-all over...
Astronomical Run. Billiards' elite have kept themselves exclusive by devising tougher games every time too many players mastered the sport's simpler forms. In elementary straight-rail billiards, the cue ball must merely hit the two object balls (a rule that experts exploit by "position play," i.e., keeping the balls clicking around in monotonous little triangles). In balkline billiards, the next step up, the table is marked off in areas from which, for a player to go on scoring, at least one object ball must be driven within one or two shots...
Himself a company commander of a British outfit in the early Burma fighting, Author Baxter writes with authority and unblinking candor. His book is not for the squeamish. No one has brought back a truer, tougher fictional report on jungle warfare since Norman Mailer wrote The Naked and the Dead. But the shocks in Look Down in Mercy are shocks of event minus droning obscenities. Novelist Baxter writes his story of the crackup of Captain Anthony Kent with what restraint...
Congress still has to act, but with four of its members already sponsoring separate bills to back Fair Trade, and with the Fair Traders themselves lining up solidly behind McGuire's bill, it looked as if the opponents would have a hard time keeping a tougher Fair Trade law from being passed...
Jack Barnaby's varsity squash team gained undisputed possession of first place in the Intercollegiate Squash Racque's League by knocking off previously undefeated Army, 6 to 3, at West Point yesterday. Having gotten over the tougher obstacle on its weekend road trip, the Crimson will try to extend its win streak at Williams this afternoon...