Word: toughest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time," says her close friend, former Champion Sarah Palfrey Fabyan Cooke Danzig. "She makes fewer mistakes, and she has the natural ability to be still greater than she is." Darlene Hard, who went to the Wimbledon finals with Althea last month and will probably give her her toughest competition at Forest Hills, is even more emphatic: "Althea improved 400% in the last four years. She's the world's champ-and doggone it, she's earned...
...Conqueror. Nobody was surprised that hawk-nosed, blue-eyed Walter Bonatti had tried it ("I climb mountains because I am afraid of them, and conquest of fear is one of man's greatest needs"). Bonatti ranks among the world's finest mountaineers, is certainly one of the toughest. A Lombard laborer's son, he quit his steel mill job at 19 to become an Alpine guide and ski instructor. In 1954 he was the youngest member of the triumphant Himalayan expedition up K2. The next year he performed a fine one-man climb up Mont Blanc...
...shop in time, once had his name put up on the plant's "lazy list" for being late. After his father decided that he should study steelmaking, he was shipped off to the Munich Polytechnikum -his first departure from home-later finished up at Aachen, Germany's toughest technical college. In 1936 he entered the firm as a deputy director and in 1938, according to Nurnberg trial records, joined the Nazi Party. That same year he entered Krupp's artillery-construction division, where he directed the design, sale and development of weapons until 1943, flying throughout Europe...
...stand the sight of blood"). Success got its savor from fine performances by Dependable Actress Eileen Heckart and TV's perennial Big-Business Boss Everett Sloane, stood in a class apart from the summer insipidity by managing to meet some of TV's toughest demands: a neatly organized plot, pitiless closeups and split-second scene switching from one effective set to another. But in the end it foundered on the debatable thesis that Success is mostly a matter of being able to tell the boss to go to hell...
...their power to keep the extremists out of office. It was Marie Antoinette who betrayed these willing helpers, negotiating and parleying with them but despising them at heart and destroying their devotion with her intrigues and ineffectual cunning. One by one the moderates fell from power; then the toughest extremists took over and sealed the fate of the Queen they called "tigress thirsting for blood," "cannibal woman," "implacable harridan who for too long profaned the holy land of liberty with her pestilential breath...