Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Truth I Feel." Lyndon provided some tougher food for Erhard to chew over. "The President," reported an aide who sat in on the talks, "said things that needed saying." Johnson bluntly told Erhard that he did not want to hear any lectures on the dangers of Communism, that Americans are fully as aware of the dangers as the West Germans. He reminded Erhard of the cries of anguish from West Germany every time the U.S. even mentions the possibility of talks with the Soviets on the Berlin question. He urged Erhard to re-examine the problems of reunification...
...take the next step to help that normalization, because it is difficult to say what we can do." In Washington, Secretary of State Dean Rusk swiftly denied that Kennedy saw any early improvement in relations with Cuba. As for the new Johnson Administration, there were indications of an even tougher line evolving to isolate Cuba still further and prevent Castro from exporting his Communist revolution to the rest of Latin America...
...Congress, and after all that is what counts." Agrees Virginia-born Social Psychologist Thomas Pettigrew: "Johnson will be tougher with the South. He knows them. Kennedy treated the South as if it were South Boston. As a Southerner, I know damn well you don't treat the South that way. Johnson won't play patty-cake with them...
...better answer to the crucial question lies in the seldom publicized accomplishments of Negroes in more private vocations. Here the barriers are tougher, and the Negro is less apt to be prepared, since to him many such fields have long seemed closed. Yet in science and education, the professions and in business, the armed forces and Government, even in elective politics, individual Negroes have broken the barriers, earned positions of respect and trust, and become part of the U.S. leadership community (see following pages...
...best swimming team in Navy's history will host the Crimson in Annapolis, and will no doubt provide much tougher competition than they did last year when Harvard gained an uncomfortably narrow eight-point victory...