Word: tougher
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...second match was actually tougher,” Chu said. “I’ve played Darius a bunch of times before, and he gave me a better ball to play against. But I was more awake and I played better [in the second match...
Norman said he made his players tougher by throwing chairs and sending freshmen to Somerville to get him sugar cookies and cheesecake...
...incumbent there, freshman Pete Sessions, suddenly faces a pit bull of a campaigner in a battle that will probably be the most expensive House race in the country, with each side expected to spend $4 million. With the candidates trading charges of poster stealing and arguing over who is tougher on child kidnappers, neither one may come out of this ugly fight looking like a winner...
...good roles to a Hollywood slot system for black comics. "Will Smith has a slot," he says. "Martin Lawrence has a slot. Chris Tucker, Chris Rock, they all have slots. I needed to get a slot." (Foxx says this with no rancor; he believes white actors have it tougher because "there's so damn many of them.") He read for the Rod Tidwell role in Jerry Maguire with Tom Cruise (for which Cuba Gooding Jr. won an Oscar), but even after Oliver Stone gave him a breakout part as a rookie quarterback in Any Given Sunday--reportedly because first choice...
...group of fans from South Boston who sang the Broadway tune to annoy the opposition, and it worked. This year, “Tessie” has been recorded by the Irish punk-rock band, The Dropkick Murphys—and you can’t get much tougher or more Boston than that. To top it off, Johnny Damon, Bronson Arroyo and Lenny Dinardo sing backup vocals on the track...