Word: tougher
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...Offensively, from a guard's perspective, I think it helps my game, because 50 percent of my shots are from around that range anyway," the senior guard says, "so it adds up to a few more points in the boxscore. Defensively it makes it tougher to play people, though...
Harvard held only one, brief lead in the match, 2-1, before finally yielding a tough round one, 5-4, to the Judges. Round two was even tougher for Harvard, as it was blown away, 7-2, and slipped behind in the match...
Genovese. Vincent ("the Chin") Gigante, 58, a former prizefighter, is capo in the family and considered by some to be just as tough as, if not tougher than, convicted Boss Salerno. One of the few veterans not under indictment, he was acquitted of trying to kill Mob Boss Frank Costello in 1957 when Costello, who retired after the rub-out attempt, refused to identify him as one of his attackers...
...Tough Guys screenplay is also by Mailer, but while the novel took two months to write, the film took three times as long. "It was tougher than I thought it would be. Scenes that read well on the page wouldn't play well." The motivating greed that drives the plot wound up being shifted from real estate to cocaine, and some of the gorier scenes were muted. "A horror film has to be delicate or it becomes a butcher shop," explains the author. There was also a larger difference. "When you're a novelist, it's all yours and your...
...asking for her answer by Jan. 6. In addition, the commanders, whose political goals differ from those of the Enrile group, presented Aquino with a list of further demands. Among them: the dismissal of several ministers reputed to be incompetent, corrupt or too far to the left, and a tougher line against the Communists...