Word: toughest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Street-roaming delinquents might not have been listening this week, but the kids saw and heard the physical translation. The gentle police approach was gone; "headbeaters" (cops) were on watch everywhere. And behind the men and women in the deep blue uniforms stood the toughest cop of all, keenly aware that the responsibility for keeping the peace was his, positive that his approach to juvenile delinquency was the proper one for a policeman-especially since the other approaches had not solved the problem. For New York's fisty finest, Commissioner Stephen Patrick Kennedy had a last basic police order...
Anderson seemed passive. On the record, no slouch could have risen so fast from a poor cotton farm, worked his way through University of Texas Law School at top of his class, become a young expert in the state government's toughest troubleshooting jobs, and managed a $300 million cattle and oil empire. But Anderson's Washington reputation came mainly from his Navy Secretary days (1953-54), when he was known as a flexible, laconic worker who stayed out of headlines and was more willing to listen to others than to voice his own ideas. Now the news...
Showing the bluntness that he rarely lets the public see or hear, Dwight Eisenhower let fire last week with the toughest language he has aimed at Capitol Hill during his 5½ years in the presidency. Target of the salvo: the defense reorganization bill unanimously reported out by "Uncle Carl" Vinson's House Armed Services Committee. When he first laid eyes on the committee's draft in mid-May, the President dubbed it "progress." But close analysis showed that three Vinson & Co. provisions sliced deep into the substance of the Administration's painstakingly thought-out proposal (TIME...
Solitary Meal. From Soummam, Abbane moved on to his toughest job: Algiers itself. By December 1956 eleven bombs a day were exploding in the streets, and the city was on the verge of collapse. The French replied with General Jacques Massu and his paratroop division, who fought the F.L.N. terror with equally brutal terror. In two months Abbane's underground was smashed, and he escaped to Tunis minutes before he was to be arrested...
First, on the dark side, the team will sorely miss captain Pete Reider, the backbone of the squad for the past three years in the distances. However, John DuMoulin, the team's top weight thrower will probably be the toughest to replace for the Crimson, as freshman Jed Fitzgerald, who capped his season with a 4:17.5 mile against Dartmouth will come close to offsetting the loss of Reider...