Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mixture of plastics that combine to form a coating similar to Saran Wrap. This is tough, but too thin to give full protection against further leakage or bursting. So he sprays on a second layer, of epoxy plastic. The result: enclosure of the aneurysm in a capsule far tougher than the natural artery wall...
...calls for a tougher foreign policy, in words more violent than Nixon's: "If it takes force to remove the Castro government, then we should use force. We cannot have a Communist country 90 miles off our shore." Federal aid to education: "The Government has no right to educate children. The family has an obligation to educate children through local school boards and local taxes." As for federal medical aid to the aged, "If my kids don't take care of me when I'm old, I'll whale...
Glimp doubted a hike would cause any immediate problem since "everyone has been shell-shocked into expecting it" and because most of Harvard's "natural rivals" are near the same total cost. In the long run, however, rising tuition makes it tougher and tougher for the College to keep in contact with the economically poorer sections of the population--a contact it wishes to maintain, Glimp said...
...long shadows cast by his glamorous, extraverted older brothers and sisters, Bobby was all but overwhelmed. He was naturally shy, physically slight and never much of a student, but he compensated with grim determination to succeed. Recalls a Milton Academy classmate: "It was much tougher in school for him than the others-socially, in football, with studies." In the closing months of the war, Second Class Seaman Kennedy served aboard the newly commissioned destroyer Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (named for his brother, who died in an airplane explosion over the English Channel). But though Joe died for his country...
...Never hesitant about suspending magazines and newspapers that go too far in criticizing his Algerian policies, De Gaulle was even tougher last week on 142 writers, teachers, film stars and journalists (ranging from Leftist Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre to Academy Award-winning Actress Simone Signoret), who signed a petition urging French soldiers to desert rather than take up arms against the Algerian rebels. Le Grand Charles decreed punishment rare in any country calling itself a democracy. Government employees who signed or support the petition, such as teachers, face suspension at one-third pay; actors and directors were forbidden employment...