Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mutiny on the Floor. To control this rambunctious House, the Speaker had to be tougher than the members, and usually he was. Until Woodrow Wilson presented his own program to Congress, the Speaker decided what bills would be introduced, and often refused even to discuss them with the President. "Gentlemen," Speaker Thomas Reed announced when he was ready to offer a bill, "we have decided to perpetrate the following outrage...
...Lido di Mortelle, pulled a pair of goggles over her eyes, and set out for the distant Italian coast. Two and a half hours later, she waded ashore, paused just long enough to gulp down honey, glucose tablets and tea, then started back toward Sicily. The going was tougher now; her right arm developed a cramp; she swallowed sea water and vomited. Only her legs kept her going. At last, after 5 hrs. and 22 min. in the water, Mary Revell staggered ashore at Grotta, Sicily-the first person ever to swim the Messina Strait both ways. She blew...
...Tougher U.S. action could not be ruled out if the Communists showed signs of moving south from the Plaine des Jarres into the Mekong River valley itself. This would strengthen their supply routes to Communist guerrillas fighting in neighboring South Viet Nam, where the U.S. is deeply committed with both men and money. Though the State Department dreaded the thought of any further military involvement in Southeast Asia, officials made it clear that more troops might be brought into the area to safeguard Laotian neutrality...
...brief Quaker rally later in the day were the sole external threats to Saturday afternoon's lacrosse game, but the varsity still had trouble stopping Pennsylvania in a low-scoring 7-5 contest. Harvard's poor shooting and equally ineffective passing, rather than Quaker prowess, made the Penn outing tougher than it should have been...
...Many investment advisers are "irresponsible." Some market letters glowingly recommended shares in companies nearing bankruptcy, often drawing their false data from other misinforming tout sheets. Recommendation: tougher surveillance of market letters by stock exchanges and dealer organizations...