Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radio. An open telephone line and a radio-telephone hookup linked him with the Administration's field force in Tuscaloosa: a team of U.S. marshals and Justice Department officials, headed by Deputy Attorney General Nicholas de Belleville Katzenbach, a big, balding man who is even tougher than he talks. At Fort Benning, Ga., 400 Army troops, specially trained for riot duty, sat in helicopters, ready to spin away to Tuscaloosa if they were needed...
...Will Be Glad." But the going is getting tougher. Nebraska, with the U.S.'s only unicameral legislature, approved No. 1 and No. 2, but Democratic Governor Frank Morrison vetoed them. The Tennessee senate passed all three amendments by a voice vote and then, on second thought, reversed itself. In New Jersey, the senate unanimously passed No. 1 and No. 2. Then after Democratic Governor Richard...
Nonetheless, government troops this season face tougher odds than ever before in the 2,000 sq. mi. battle zone, known to the colonists as the Rotten Triangle. The rebels, admitted a Portuguese officer, have "tremendously'' improved their tactics and firepower in recent months. Shuttling freely into Angola from Congolese bases across the 400-mile northern border, wily terrorist bands have replaced machetes and canhangulas, their crude, homemade muzzle-loaders, with Belgian Mausers, U.S. carbines and Czech machine guns. And, unlike Portugal's 50,000-man expeditionary force, they know every inch of the terrain. Says a longtime...
...fifth surge in business since World War II is unlike anything the nation has ever experienced. In every important sense, it is a new kind of economy. Consumers are earning more, yet going deeper into debt than ever before. Businessmen are selling more goods than ever, but finding it tougher to turn a profit. The number of jobs is rising, but so is the number of jobless. Inflation, the almost inevitable companion of every postwar advance, is barely visible. Stable prices in times of rising incomes are opening a golden era for the consumer...
...their desks such mottoes as "Work is a sacred thing; better not touch it," and with good reason. Most French lycées span seven years, the goal being two baccalaureat exams for university entrance at the level of U.S. college sophomores. But getting educated is a lot tougher at Louis-le-grand. It now specializes largely in three postgraduate years for boys aiming to enter the much harder grandes écoles, particularly the Ecole Normale Supérieure, France's top source of professors, which gets two-thirds of its students from Louis-le-grand...