Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...servicemen are under much tougher restrictions. The code of conduct for armed forces personnel requires that if captured they give nothing more than their name, rank, service number and date of birth...
After Confinement, Liberty. The Navy intends to try tougher tests (one this summer to see how much heat men cooped up in a shelter can take) to study the physical factors of shelter life, but its volunteer guinea pigs are unlikely ever to experience the psychological stresses of real shelter life. The first test recruits were not told how long they would be confined, but they knew that they would eventually get out in good health. Aware that they were under observation, they carefully tended to squelch unsociable feelings; the Navy even let them have all the cigarettes they wanted...
...hand against the still powerful Stalinists, who, with the Chinese Communists, still cling to the Marxist dogma that war between the two systems is inevitable. If, on the other hand, the West pushes Khrushchev too hard, he might fall, and a Stalinist or "Chinese" successor might be far tougher to deal with. In effect, this theory is a political version of Hilaire Belloc's cautionary verse...
...lineups are tougher to figure out than a double crostic. Both squads have a number of swimmers capable of near-record performances in any of several events. Tonight's winner depends largely on how well the coaches manipulate their talent...
...Tough. Though the U.S. has no national compulsory vaccination, it has had no confirmed cases of smallpox since 1953. And authorities have been consistently tougher than Britain's about exacting from travelers proof of vaccination within the last three years. Now travelers from epidemic areas or those who might have been in contact with such travelers are closely watched. The Public Health Service urges all Americans having such contacts, or now going abroad, to get revaccinated if their last vaccination is more than a year...