Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they gathered at the United Nations in New York. Rusk also laid the groundwork for an informal meeting this week in which he could zero in on just the Latin American foreign ministers. There was vague talk of stepped-up surveillance of Communist military activity in the Caribbean and tougher economic sanctions against Cuba, in each case through collective hemisphere action...
...drab pennant race that saw a perennial loser (the Washington Senators, now Minnesota Twins) come in second, and a baby in the league (the Los Angeles Angels) take third, they could not even win 100 ball games, while both the Giants and the Dodgers reached the century mark against tougher competition...
...rest of the Ivy League is tougher this year. Munro isn't worried about Brown, who beat Harvard 5-0 last year and finished second. Penn, Princeton, and Dartmouth are the stiff competitors in his book--Yale, Cornell, and Columbia are slated to fill out the bottom of the League
...there is nothing to it. It offers fun, adventure, a chance to use your skills. But if you haven't done it before, the prospect is terrifying. This is the fourth time I've attempted this kind of thing. In many respects, the other slopes were much tougher." How are things on the hazardous Curtis slope six weeks after Culligan started at the top? Going great, he says. In spite of a $4,000,000 loss in the second quarter, the fourth quarter will be "dramatically improved." Culligan says he has already booked $37 million worth of advertising...
...will inevitably disrupt communications and force armies to disperse to thinly populated areas; survival will demand near-perfect discipline and quick adaptation to new surroundings. "After the first shock of mutual devastation had been survived," insists Slim, "victory would go, as it did in our other jungle, to the tougher, more resourceful infantryman. The easier and more gadget-filled our daily life becomes, the harder will it be to produce him. It took us some time to do so in Burma. It can be done in peace; in war, there will no longer be so much time...