Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finney is tougher, handsomer, more interesting and less schooled than you are. From here on, Finney is you, at least in those rare moments when you look morality in the eye. We watch him stand eye to eye with the girl he's made pregnant, later eye to eye with her surprisingly decent husband...
...rough and dirty fight, but most boxing fans had seen them rougher and tougher. The difference was that seldom had a nationwide TV audience been treated to so shocking a reminder of boxing's basic brutality. In the ring at Madison Square Garden, Welterweight Champion Benny ("Kid") Paret, 25, was battered unconscious by a furious twelfth-round assault from Challenger Emile Griffith...
...Tougher Largesse. Hamilton already has tightened up his staff, tirelessly buttonholed Congressmen to argue the merits of aid. Hoping to head off traditional gripes, he went to Capitol Hill last week to present his case to the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Non-Communist Western countries have increased their aid 40% in the past five years to $2.3 billion a year, said Hamilton, and "these other free world countries are actually contributing a larger proportion of their gross national products to foreign assistance than is the U.S." Furthermore, said Hamilton, foreign aid does not appreciably affect the U.S. gold outflow: more...
...already begun to be tougher in dispensing aid, now insists that aid countries pass social and economic reforms before they enjoy U.S. largesse. When one nation asked for U.S. money for better housing in its capital city, U.S. aides found that it intended to build the housing in a swank section. The U.S. insisted that the nation would get no money unless it attacked the city's slums-and the poor in one section of the city are now getting new housing, plumbing and electricity. Says Hamilton: "Money and progress march along together. If our requirements aren...
...European Common Market. De Gaulle regards a supranational European union as an abomination, hopes instead for a confederation of European states, each with a veto over policies it does not like. Already foreign ambassadors posted to Paris have warned their governments that an Algerian settlement means a tougher, not a more tractable De Gaulle...