Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relatively weak Amherst is not Princeton, Andover, or Yale, and Wynn is clearly expecting trouble from these traditionally tougher squads. If his team is to stretch its winning streak it will have to eliminate some of the sloppy tennis it showed Saturday...
...ideas that have already proved successful in the U.S., but have yet to catch on or are just catching on elsewhere: self-service laundries, bowling alleys, drive-in car washes, quick shoe-repair shops. But the task of setting up a small business in a strange country is far tougher than setting up one in the U.S., where the failure rate is high enough even without the resentment from foreign competitors that the American abroad often faces. Nonetheless, the appeal of setting up business overseas is undeniable. Says Peter Pach, who went to Italy to break into opera...
...French picked Sihanouk over his seemingly tougher uncles, who were actually in line for the succession, because they thought that the boy would be more pliable. For the first few years, it looked as though they had been right. Sihanouk became an inveterate sampot-chaser, thereby entangling himself in a web of domestic complexities. Royal records are kept secret, but he has apparently been married six times, sired 14 children. His current favorite and constant companion: Monique, the lovely half-Italian, half-Cambodian beauty-contest winner whom Sihanouk met when he awarded her a pageant prize in 1951.* Five...
...uphill trail got tougher and more slippery all the time. But by midafternoon, even the tenderest feet were firmly planted on a windblown, grassy highland. Off in the distance gleamed San Francisco Bay; beyond it, looming out of the sea itself, was Mount Tamalpais, its summit aswirl with purpling, swiftly scudding clouds. The hikers' blisters were forgotten now, the land had worked its magic; there were no newcomers any more...
...provides interesting food for thought. However, his argument seems to be only that Ivy teams do not do well at the Easterns. Mr. Graham falls to see that the reason for entry in tournament is to allow Ivy teams a more varied spectrum of competition--albelt, in some cases, tougher competition...