Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Earlier this week the faculty resident of the North Quadrangle dormitories at Brandeis had predicted that "much tougher rules," probably including sharp time reductions, would be announced by the administration in the near future...
...blatantly coaching from the sideline. Trying to lend moral assistance to a Bear field-goal attempt, he once booted a 240-lb. guard right off the bench. Another time, he curtly ordered a rookie:"Taylor, we've run out of time outs. Go in and get hurt." Even tougher with a buck, Halas has been known to wrestle fans for the football after extra-point plays, and a player on a visiting team once complained that Halas provided only two bars of soap for 36 players. To a Bear player who pleaded for an advance...
...last week. Back on Oct. 27, he had scored No. 544 against the Montreal Canadiens, thus tying Maurice ("The Rocket") Richard's alltime record. Now he was shooting for a new record and another entry to add to the eleven marks he already holds. Suddenly everything got much tougher. As a matter of pride, rival defensemen double teamed him, jabbed him with sticks and elbows, smashed him to the ice with vicious body checks...
...hoped would do justice to the "more profound" composers-Bach, Vivaldi, Handel and Mozart. He found plenty of recruits eager to put up with his tough discipline. To achieve its tight togetherness, the group practices six days a week, eleven months a year. And the work is all the tougher because Barshai insists that all the instruments (save the harpsichord and cellos) be played from a standing position, just as in Bach...
...company's aluminum operations and concentrate more on producing its plastic discovery, polypropylene, which a fortnight ago won a Nobel prize for Chemist Giulio Natta. The first commercial use of polypropylene, made in Italy under the brand name Moplen, enables Montecatini to manufacture plastic materials that are tougher and more heat resistant than any so far produced. The plastic can be dyed any color and be made to float, is already widely used to make buckets, tubs, basins and other domestic articles. Faina hopes that it will help make Montecatini's petrochemical operation highly profitable, is even thinking...