Word: tougher
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...there is little chance that Zimmerman will vary from the familiar and successful pattern of power sweeps, mixed up with passing and seasoned with inside reverses and halfback options. Harvard won't need any new plays to topple Lafayette and will save the surprises for B.U. and later, tougher foes...
Saturday Harvard goes to Amherst to meet a much tougher foe, then next Wednesday the Crimson plays another of the East's best squads at Wesleyan. The first home game is with Boston University October 7. The Terriers are not a soccer power, and neither is M.I.T., the next home opponent...
...member National Educational Association and the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s American Federation of Teachers (membership: 142,000), which have long vied for the allegiance of the nation's teachers. Last week the two organizations seemed to be in a muscular contest to show who could be tougher in talking-or not talking-with school boards. A.F.T. locals were responsible for the power plays in New York, East St. Louis, Baltimore and Detroit; elsewhere in Michigan, where 14 school districts were closed, N.E.A. affiliates took the lead, as they did in Florida...
...want to protect her-and women don't mind it," says one director. For one thing, Sandy is a natural victim. Sturdy chairs collapse when she sits on them; hurtling taxis somehow spray mud just on her. Yet, despite her seeming fragility, she could hardly be tougher as an actress and a woman. And though she is not exactly a sex symbol, "sex," as the same director says, "is completely associable with her. If a guy had to make a pass at Sandy Dennis, he wouldn't panic...
Schemel, who was completely paralyzed from the neck down for a month and whose left leg and arm are still partially paralyzed, had two things going for him: intense public concern with auto safety, and the tendency of more and more courts in the U.S. to hold manufacturers to tougher standards of liability when their products cause injury. Indeed, one member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Judge Roger Kiley, agreed that "automobiles are intended to be used in an environment in which a traffic death occurs every eleven minutes and an injury every 19 seconds...