Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thieu's proposal got short shrift in Washington. What was more, Thieu received scant support from President-elect Richard Nixon, who the South Vietnamese had hoped would be much tougher in dealings with Hanoi than Lyndon Johnson. They were disappointed when Nixon declared that until the inauguration Johnson could speak for the incoming administration...
...platoon of pro prospects, Cozza prepares for the biggest challenge of his coaching career. He admits Harvard is tough: "any team with a kicker [Rich Szaro] who has trouble deciding which foot to use from the 35-yard line has got to be tough." But Yale, he believes, is tougher...
...freshman meet, Harvard ran into tougher competition, finishing seveth in a field of 29. Villanova swept to a convincing victory with a score of 27 points. Penn State was a distant second with 99, followed by Penn, Cornell, Maryland, and N.Y.U...
...started coming in from the Northeast, the first incumbent to lose his seat was Connecticut Democrat Donald Irwin. Representing Fairfield County, Irwin was elected in 1958, defeated in 1960, elected again in 1964 and sent back to Congress by a slim margin in 1966. This time he made things tougher for himself by calling Democratic Senator Abe Ribicoff a "creep" for his Democratic convention attack on Chicago police enforcement. Irwin lost to Republican State Representative Lowell P. Weicker Jr., 37, a lawyer who managed to unify the district's liberal and conservative Republicans...
...students who had occupied Sproul Hall for ten hours. The students did not resist arrest and the cops were so polite that one demonstrator was even led back inside to retrieve his forgotten books. When more militant demonstrators next occupied Moses Hall, damaging furniture and files, Heyns got tougher. He summoned off-campus cops to grab 72 of them in a predawn raid; although they submitted meekly, he immediately suspended all of them. The protesters then issued their call for a strike by students and faculty but had trouble even getting enough supporters to man picket lines...