Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most formidable fighting men are the aboriginal tribesmen whom the French called montagnards -hill people. Deadly hunters with crossbows and poisoned arrows, the more than 500,000 montagnards live in the vast "high plateau" that extends across one-third of the country. They are darker and tougher than the lowland Vietnamese, who consider the montagnards racially inferior, and scornfully refer to them as moi, or baboons. To protect them from land-grabbing lowlanders, French colonial administrators in effect made the central highlands a tribal reservation. When the French pulled out in 1954, lowlanders once again drove the montagnards ever deeper...
...competition is growing much tougher, and so are the tactics. In current negotiations about building a Franco-German turboprop transport, the French are holding out for a fifty-fifty split of the contract, while the Germans argue that they have ordered more of the planes and should get more of the production. Right now the tanks of four nations are facing each other across battle lines: the British Chieftain, the West German Leopard, the French AMX30 and the U.S. M60. The French, whose armaments salesmen are trying hardest, have sold many of their light AMX13 tanks, but are having trouble...
Sometimes the prelim boys put on a tougher fight than the main eventers, and last week Hubert Humphrey and William Miller were flailing about on all sides. Not all the blows were above the belt line...
...widening circle of quietly unanimous recognition for its unique excellences. In the three months since it came out, Anthony Lewis' Gideon's Trumpet has already established itself as that kind of book. It is not an out-of-the-way literary curiosity but something in some ways tougher to bring off: a sound, literate, readable introduction to an important though difficult subject-in this case, the changing philosophy of the U.S. Supreme Court during the last quarter century...
...tougher form, pledging becomes tithing; some Protestant fundamentalists stress tithing so much that it almost seems a prerequisite for membership. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Don H. Hughes, a Catholic, wrote a leaflet that shows a crucified Christ with the inscription, "God's sacrifice for me!" and on the back says...