Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sounds like a contradiction, but Harvard's experience should spell the difference -- the Crimson's sophomores have boaten tougher teams than St. Lawrence this season...
...actual soldiering is tougher than ever. During his eight weeks of Basic Combat Training, a recruit nowadays is automatically "recycled," or forced to repeat any week that he fails. After an exhaustive basic proficiency test, he enters a second eight-week period called Advanced Individual Training. During AIT, the recruit learns further skills based on his aptitude and interests, finally qualifies in one of 950 Military Occupation Specialties ranging from "creepy-peepy" (battlefield radar) to computers (by which warehouse sergeants now tot up rations). In all, today's soldier gets four months' training v. eight to twelve weeks...
...Tougher & Faster. El Tor, long underestimated, is now bullying "classical" cholera off the map. In the British Medical Journal, Calcutta's Dr. Sachimohan Mukerjee reports evidence that if old-fashioned cholera and El Tor bacilli are put into the same test tube or invade the same human victim, El Tor will completely crowd out the "classical" vibrios. Not only is it a tougher bug; it also spreads faster. And a recovered El Tor victim may remain a menace by continuing to excrete the bacilli for as long as six months, as against a mere three weeks after classical cholera...
What makes him so successful in a field where the mortality rate of new shows is over 75% ? "Native arrogance," admits Leonard. A rival producer at Ashley-Famous Artists takes a tougher view: "Leonard doesn't think. That's why he's successful. He's like those gangsters he used to play. What he likes in his gut the public likes in their guts-or else. He has the primitive instincts of a clever ape. On television, that's worth more than a crystal ball...
Call to Action. The odds are that the Government will now take tougher steps, though they may not be half as tough as some Negroes advocate. More states' rights will no doubt disappear, though not nearly as many as some Southerners will claim they have lost. Basically, the Government still hopes that Southern justice will so improve itself that drastic federal intervention will not be necessary. The hope is not entirely groundless...