Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parts of darkest America may be harder than if they went to darkest Africa. "We don't want softies." says one Administration planner. "National Service Corps work won't be a picnic in Central Park nor an outing at Coney Island. In some places, it will be tougher than serving in the Peace Corps overseas...
...time, he wants a more liberal policy than the "showcase nation." Briefly, his theory is that aid funds can in themselves act in certain cases to spur economic reform and planning, and to train reformers and planners--the assumption behind the Alliance for Progress. He is a man of tougher mind and greater vision than the President ever gave him credit for, and it is time for a resurrection of his ideas...
...Tougher screening of the men who man nuclear weapons. They now may be banned for "overindulgence in alcohol," "financial or family irresponsibility," unspecified "behavioral changes,'' any social maladjustment...
This late-year surge gained speed after the Cuban crisis. In board rooms around the country, businessmen were impressed that President Kennedy had talked even tougher to Khrushchev than to Roger Blough. Heartened too by signals of economic upturn, managers stepped up their spending for plants and machines in the fourth quarter to a record yearly rate of $38.4 billion. On Wall Street the big mutual funds and pension funds moved back into the stock market (though badly singed small investors continued to spend their money elsewhere), and the market recouped 55% of its $96 billion paper loss. The mood...
...before losing one Saturday, when the Crimson slashed out a 22 to 5 triumph over Bradford Durfee Tech. The sabre and foll teams dropped only one match between them and the epee team won, 5 to 4. All team members saw action. The fencers are expected to face much tougher going Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. against M.I.T...