Word: toughest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...span the gulf between the U.S. and much of the world, fair planners gear their displays to the needs and moods of the host country. This spring at the Casablanca fair, the U.S. emphasized American methods for improving farm output, one of Morocco's toughest problems. At the fair in Tokyo, capital of a country acutely sensitive to the promise of nuclear energy, the U.S. concentrated on showing how reactors can be used in industry...
Within hours after the White House realized that the President's first TV defense of his budget had won him nothing, Dwight Eisenhower and his staff set about recovering lost ground. Last week, when the President took to radio and television to fight the toughest action of all-in defense of the hard-pressed foreign-aid appropriation-he talked with ringing conviction of a program that is not only vital to U.S. defense but challenging to all that the U.S. stands for. Almost overnight Washington sensed a sudden and dramatic change in the political climate. The White House glowed...
...voice beat upon more than 18,000 people -seekers and servers of the Lord as well as the merely curious-and it etched itself upon the sliding ribbons of the tape recorders set up by radiomen. The evangelist of the mid-century set out last week on his toughest "crusade"-to bring salvation to New York's 8,000,000 sinners...
...many a rank-and-file teamster could still tell himself that Good Old Dave had the boys' interests at heart, no matter what he did. Last week, as the hearings took on a new reel. Good Old Dave turned out to be Bad Old Dave for even the toughest teamster. Reason: testimony plainly showed that Dave 1) used the Teamsters, whenever it suited his money-hungry whims, as a useful adjunct to Dave Beck's business enterprises, and 2) cheated the widow of an honored union official in his relentless pursuit of a few easy bucks...
Throughout the taut and tiny land of Israel blue-and-white flags bearing the Star of David fluttered proudly in observance of the ninth Independence Day celebration of the Middle East's fastest-growing and toughest nation. But even more symbolic of Israel's independent spirit was the arrival, in five boatloads, of 2,600 immigrants, the largest number to arrive in a single day since...