Word: toughers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard usually goes into a game with M.I.T. over-confident and much too sure of itself. Lacking a tested right halfback, the Crimson may find it a little tougher than in the past, but there still isn't much of a reason to start being humble...
Nixon's strategy rests on his ability to siphon off enough strength from Alabama's George Wallace to nail down the electoral votes of several Southern states. He is emphasizing "law and order" himself, but Agnew is doing it in much tougher terms. "Nixon and Agnew are riding the right issue?trouble in the streets," said a Maryland Republican. "It's the big issue. It outruns everything, especially with women voters. They're scared to death to walk down the street any more. But what a hell of an issue to have to run on." According to a Democratic strategist...
...Eyes, it is a depressing catalogue of homosexual assaults in the city's prisons and the sheriff's vans. Virtually no young man of slight build who enters prison is safe from attack, the investigators found. Most are overwhelmed and raped by gangs of tougher convicts within a day or two of their arrival. Their bodies defiled, their manhood degraded and their will broken, the victims are sent back to society "ashamed, confused and filled with hatred." The system "imposes a cruel, gruesome punishment, which is not and could not be included in the sentence of the court...
...HAZARD AND HOPE: "The prospects never looked brighter and the problems never looked tougher. Anyone who isn't stirred by both of those statements is too tired to be of much use to us in the days ahead...
...Northeastern states?but it might also attract significant numbers of disgruntled voters in the North. This plan is reinforced by the echoes of riots past and prospective. A bloody battle was raging in a Negro area just across Biscayne Bay from Convention Hall. Each ghetto upheaval will make things tougher for the Democrats this year...