Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grand Central Station, managed to close the New York Central Railroad. A couple of days later, the New Haven Railroad was forced to shut down. At that point, more than 100,000 commuters had been forced to find new ways of getting to work-and the snowstorm made things tougher to the point of impossibility...
...fight against Castro is also getting tougher. The break in diplomatic relations, plus the U.S. decision last week to shut off all travel to Cuba, makes it harder to shunt agents back and forth. Castro's decree of the death penalty for all counter-revolutionary activities-including mere possession of a bottle of gasoline (in Castro's lexicon, that equals one Molotov cocktail)-"is having a great effect," says a Frente leader. "Underground work is much harder now. People are no longer willing to hide revolutionaries because it means death...
...John, now you're the President. Big John, you're tougher than cement. We need you, you're the leader of the U.S.A...
...allies think that Khrushchev will let the fire go out in Laos, lest the West be forced to take tougher steps itself. He also badly wants a summit conference with the U.S.'s incoming President, John Kennedy, and he is not likely to let his opportunities for troublemaking in Laos jeopardize that larger concern...
...Hockey Association now deprives Canadian players of one season of U.S. college eligibility for every year they played the game in Canada after their 20th birthday. And under pressure from irate anti-Canadian coaches, the policy committee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association this month will debate a far tougher measure: total loss of eligibility for a man who has played in any league that pays any of its players. In the meantime, Denver is looking forward to another championship this year. Shrugs one Denver fan: "All I care about is that our Canadians beat every one else...