Word: tougher
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though isolated from its main coalition partner on this issue, ARENA refused to give up the fight for a right-wing President. According to some Salvadoran observers, D'Aubuisson saw the struggle as a "machismo" exercise to prove that he was tougher than the generals and the U.S. embassy combined. The boyish-looking former intelligence officer was encouraged by the gaggle of mostly female supporters who packed the assembly gallery each day to shout their support and hoot down the opposition. Before Magaña's selection, ARENA Leader Mario Redaelli boasted that he had told...
...combined circ. 199,000), owned by the Seaboard Coast Line railroad, now CSX Corp. The papers once avoided any mention of, say, a sports team flying rather than taking a train. Cracks one Florida editor: "They used to print stories about cars running over trains." Nowadays the paper hires tougher reporters and is making a creditable effort at improvement...
Next weekend the spikers face a tougher challenge when they travel to Pittsburgh for the Eastern College Volleyball League tournament...
...individual, and only then is it infectious. Christ, says Leonardo Boff in his Latin American classic Jesus Christ, Liberator, is "the one who disconcerts," the "one who provokes a radical crisis." In white America, though, where oppression at least seems to be somewhere else, it will be much tougher to argue the necessity of a theology of liberation, only when personal transformations are begun--some victories over selfishness won--will the impact begin to be felt...
Alice Brown has gone and made life even tougher for Gilbert and Sullivan traditionalists in her astonishing production of The Gondoliers at the Agassiz Theater. Brown has approached Gilbert and Sullivan's last great collaborative effort completely from scratch, as if she had never seen or heard about its traditional staging. No director of Gilbert and Sullivan, to this longtime fan's recollection, has ever quite ignored the D'Oyly Carte orthodoxy the way Brown has. Wilford Leach, in his successful Broadway production of The Pirates of Penzance updated G & S conventions in many ways and even overthrew them...