Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have kept going with broken wrists. Robertson himself is just getting over a torn muscle above his right hip, which benched him for five games. After a game, win or lose, the exhausted players slump silently on stools in front of their lockers. Pro basketball is now so much tougher than big-league baseball that Cousy scoffs at any comparison: "One of those guys runs out a triple, and he looks like he needs a stomach pump...
Although the Crimson is short four men--Harry Howell, Bill Beckett, Dave Crosby, and Jerry Jorgenson (who wrenched his knee in Monday's game)--it should survive its remaining games against Princeton, Brown, and Yale. B.C. will have a tougher time of it in the next few weeks, meeting the formidable opposition of St. Lawrence, B.U., Clarkson, and Colby...
...look forward with anticipation to the Kennedy era. Said Seafarers Union Skipper Paul Hall of the tugboat strike: "The railroads got the hell kicked out of 'em. Now that the railroad brotherhoods have seen this, they got blood on their teeth. They will be a helluva lot tougher...
...other unions be tougher. As Secretary Goldberg left Manhattan, the militant National Maritime Union was leading 3,500 nonrailroad tuggers in separate negotiations and holding out for wage boosts of 33¼%. The tuggers threatened to call a far greater strike this week, stop most of the fuel shipments into the city and prevent most ocean liners from docking at the world's busiest port...
...clear away a formidable congressional roadblock to the Kennedy Administration's legislative programs. But first Rayburn had to leap across the chasm: a showdown floor vote on his proposal. Defeat would gravely weaken his own prestige, strengthen Smith's and make the Rules Committee an even tougher obstacle than before...