Word: toughest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anderson (Army) teams with Dawkins to give Army the year's most devastating halfback combination. On All-America last year and a better all-round player than Dawkins, Anderson shows powerful drive to the strong side, where the going is toughest, passes as well as most quarterbacks, blocks and tackles with fierce efficiency...
...pursuits. "Their previous training is as good as the men get," George P. Springer, Dean of Admissions, said. An officer of the School of Music felt that some of their undergraduate girls experience 'strain' in the effort to keep up. Most of the students seemed to feel that the toughest part of getting a Yale degree was gaining admittance...
...postwar democracy to a mess. Faced with these outbursts, Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi remained politely placid, meek and smiling. "But Kishi's smile," the Socialists admit with just a trace of admiration, "is like a rose-it has thorns that slash." Last week, faced with the toughest battle in his 21 months in office, Kishi injected some thorny parliamentary shenanigans...
Each eight has had a week to train for "the season's toughest race...
...sprouting from every stump. Against gloomy predictions of voter apathy, U.S. registration reached an alltime nonpresidential-year high of an estimated 76,145,600 (v. 74,879,146 in 1954). Against Republican complaints about his above-it-all political leadership, President Eisenhower threw himself into the campaign with the toughest partisan speeches of his life. And against national and international trends that had threatened to turn the elections into a Democratic cakewalk to sweeping victory, came developments that, in state after state, had turned the contests into down-to-the-wire horse races. The updated issues...