Word: toughest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faced with far more eligible candidates than the nation's lycées could possibly handle, French educational authorities decided to slash the number by giving the toughest entrance examinations in history. They succeeded only too well. This month 200,000 eleven-year-olds were forced to answer questions on André Gide, to analyze passages from Gabriel Hanotaux, and to solve problems such as: "A group of passengers contributed 850 francs each to rent a bus. Six withdrew, so the price was raised by 210 francs each. How many people finally formed the group?"* The result...
Terrible Strain. Tires were the toughest problem. They were inflated to a rock-hard 60 Ibs. (until this year competitors had settled for a relatively soft 40 Ibs.), and to make matters worse, the track's new blacktop surface seemed especially abrasive. Every time there was an accident, the yellow caution lights went on, warning drivers to hold their positions. During the unregulated moments when the track was clear, drivers roared to top speed. So the long grind degenerated into a series of lopes and sprints...
...fine -for "soliciting openly in public ... or embracing or seizing a prospective partner." On procurers, who roam the Japanese countryside offering poverty-stricken farmers cash loans in return for the indentured services of their daughters, penalties were tougher: up to three years in prison or a maximum $277 fine.*Toughest of all are the penalties on bordello mama-sans (madams): up to ten years in jail or a maximum $833 fine. Financial aid was promised to help local communities rehabilitate their ex-prostitutes, but there was no compulsion on the girls to learn better ways, and no penalty whatever...
...prepare a proper reception. Not since the collapse of their "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" had any Japanese been greeted as conquerors. But now three of them had become the first to top Manaslu, world's ninth tallest mountain (26,658 ft.) and one of the toughest to climb...
...George W. Hyatt, director of the hospital's tissue bank. Dr. Hyatt, an orthopedic surgeon, seized the chance to turn a loss of life into a lifesaving procedure. He arranged for the bodies to be moved 20 miles to the hospital's morgue, then turned to "the toughest part of my job": telephoning the two families to notify them of the deaths. Dr. Hyatt waited an hour or so for the first shock to wear off, then called back: Would the families consent to having parts of the sailors' bodies taken for the hospital's tissue...