Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Novelist John O'Hara, also a special for Hearst, found the going tougher. For one day, he was reduced to telling how a reporter had lost a squabble over a seat in the crowded court; he neglected to mention that the reporter was O'Hara. Hearst-ling Inez Robb, doing her usual breezy job, apologized to her readers for one omission: she had felt she must leave the courtroom when the autopsy testimony got too grisly. Reporter Robb was also the source of some innocent merriment in Manchester; townspeople tittered at the big-city blue tint...
...intercollegiate competition, the varsity has lost only to Williams, while beating Dartmouth, McGill, MIT, Amherst, and Trinity. On Tuesday, the Crimson won a Metropolitan A League engagement which is indicative of its strength since these matches are tougher than many college matches...
...Iron Hand. In sharp contrast, Acheson then staked out a second Asian area in tougher language. The nation's defense, said he, rests on a North Pacific frontier running along the Aleutian Islands to Japan and down through the Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa) to the Philippines. In case of attack on this line, he said, the U.S. would defend all these positions. (For Korea, hanging perilously close to the most naked of Russian ambitions, the Secretary offered only a vaguer acknowledgment of "responsibility...
Under Mississippi's earthy and antiquated penal system, the tougher and more ruthless a convict is, the better off he is. At the 16,000-acre Parchman Prison Farm such bad actors are used as "shooter trusties," equipped with rifles and vertical stripes, and set to guarding their lesser, not so enterprising, fellows. Loyalty (i.e., shooting an escaping convict) is often rewarded with freedom...
...over Whitehall, officials were bone-weary, and nobody had a tougher job than Stafford Cripps. Tired as he was, his faith could still generate eloquence. In Saint Paul's he said...