Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Recalls Robbins: "Once Mr. Balanchine and I were discussing a young choreographer at City Ballet, and I suggested that he get experience doing musicals. Balanchine laughed and said, 'No, they wouldn't have him. Broadway is tougher than...
...added bumps and rolling terrain to the course, piling up snow here, scraping some away there, molding an ideal racing network. "The skiers will see some things that are quite different than when we had the World Cup races here last year," he says. "The courses are much tougher, much more technical and difficult...
...usual, the Crimson came out tougher for period two. B.C. got off only three shots during the stanza, but none of Harvard's 11 attempts found its way into the Eagle net. A single Crimson defensive lapse allowed Fichera to notch number two at 10:58, while B.C. won numerous battles in front of its own goal. Lone season trend last night's game did not reflect was a strong Crimson third period. Fichera ended her scoring spree on a soft wristshot that deflected off a group of Crimson defensemen and Williams' skates and slowly dribbled over the Harvard goal...
...time Carter returned to Washington on Monday, he had a new speech that an aide described as "tougher than what went with him to Camp David." It was a hard, anti-Soviet address that largely reflected Brzezinski's views, rather than those of Vance. Said a senior State Department official: "Zbig's finally got his cold war." Indeed, it struck some foreign policy experts as ironic that Brzezinski's longstanding advocacy of a tough line had apparently been vindicated by a crisis that his arguments, his Moscow-baiting and his tilt toward Peking may have helped to cause...
...indications of the national mood in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. That mood, compounding the anger caused by the seizure of hostages in Iran, is unmistakably indignant, but it is also puzzled and frustrated. People feel injured in their national pride and yearn for tougher action. But they are not ready for war, and are unable to figure out what nonmilitary actions might impel the Soviets to pull out of Afghanistan or the Iranians to free the hostages. Kenneth Stein, an assistant professor of Middle Eastern history at Emory University, describes the feeling as "a sense...