Word: toughest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end Hoyte's progress corresponded roughly to Hannibal's timetable, but the toughest part was yet to come. At the Clapier pass itself, the path is in some places less than 6 ft. wide, bounded by rising cliffs on one side, sheer 1,000-ft. drops on the other. In the first four days of the trek, Jumbo lost 300 lbs., but cheerfully contrived to put away her daily food ration of 150 lbs. of hay, 50 lbs. of apples, 40 lbs. of bread, 20 lbs. of carrots and half a pound of vitamin...
...Chicago's Swedish Covenant Hospital, apparently recovering from surgery for cancer resulting from his work with Crookes tubes. It had been his 92nd operation. The first X-ray martyr-a victim of the rays' effects before their nature was recognized-has proved to be one of the toughest...
...long way from Mexico, Mo. to New York, N.Y., and the top spot at the Herald Tribune is one of the toughest. In accepting the responsibility, Mexico's White also gets the authority to go with it. Where Whitney had sought two men, one to be editor and another to be president, White was handed both hats. Moreover, he will name a managing editor and business manager of his own choosing. Says he: "My neck is out. I'm either going to hang or dance." If he dances, it could be a mighty merry jig, both...
Cocksure in his position as boss of the nation's biggest, toughest union, President James Riddle Hoffa of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters cared not a nit about the 1958 order handed down by Washington's Federal District Judge F. Dickinson Letts. That order, arising from a suit against Hoffa by 13 rank-and-file Teamsters, placed the racket-ridden, goon-directed union under the supervision of a three-member board of court-appointed monitors. But Hoffa blithely declared that the monitors' recommendations were purely advisory, ignored them completely ("O.K., you've advised me; I reject...
...fourth straight homer, a long blast into the left-field bleachers some 410 ft. away, came in the ninth inning off Baltimore Orioles Reliefer Ernie Johnson, who had not allowed a homer all season. What was more, Colavito brought off his feat in a park rated the toughest in the league for home-run hitters-no team has ever hit more than three home runs there in a single game...