Word: toughest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the Nixon campaign days are 18 hours long; the toughest of them begin at 7 a.m. and end at 3 a.m. the next day, only to begin again at 7. When Nixon was hit by the flu in September (TIME, Oct. 8), he refused to slow down, ordered his doctor to stoke him with antibiotics and vitamin pills and spray his throat with cortisone. Although he eats little on campaign tours (a light breakfast, a sandwich on the road, a snack before his evening speech, an attempt at dinner afterward), he actually gained two pounds on his first...
...Yardlings should encounter their toughest competition so far this season, from the Indian freshmen...
Such treatment was rougher than Liberace has received at the hands of most U.S. newssheets-even the toughest Americans have been softened by personal contact with the Liberace charm-and he momentarily lost his smile. "To mention Momism, to refer to my love for my mother as if it were Communism or Naziism, is something I can't imagine anyone in his right mind would do," he snapped. Then recovering his benign calm. Liberace purred: "Everyone has to expect a certain number of nonbelievers, and even enemies. I suppose that's why they shot Abraham Lincoln and crucified...
...sides of his lectern to keep himself erect. Photographers edged forward, setting their cameras to picture the Vice President at his moment of collapse. Behind Nixon, Dr. Todd crouched anxiously a few feet away. But somehow Nixon made it. finishing the speech that he later described as "the toughest of my life...
...educational work that has never been known to hurt the Democratic cause in populous Wayne County (Detroit). "Look what we're up against," says Feikens, an ardent youngish (38) lawyer with the lean and hungry mien of a Packard dealer. "This is the best-heeled, toughest political gang in the country...