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Word: toughing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tough," Reidy said. "We're 2-6. I don't think beating Penn and Yale [November 19] will salvage our season. I think it would make the off-season a little easier to bear...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Another Despairing Page | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...elections are tough," Fiscus said. "I knew going in that incumbents get re-elected 99 times to one. In order to be elected, you have get to the people and talk to them. If I got to every voter I'd win hands-down. In the past six months I've probably shaken about 15,000 hands...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Those Kennedys... | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...sure that there aren't other cities where she could have won," said the Bentley spokesperson who is a Baltimore resident. "Baltimore people are local people. It's kind of insular in that way. And it's tough for an outsider to come in here and be automatically accepted...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Those Kennedys... | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...tough to raise money for a race against Ted Kennedy in the ways youmight think," Wilkins said. "The 40 percent of thepeople who can't stand him feel very stronglyabout it and they're willing to pay money tosupport someone else...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Those Kennedys... | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...Saundra Graham is still an outsider, both in the city and the State House--in a good sense," says Barrett. "She is tough, aggressive. She still pounds the table for decent things. I have not seen her change...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Trying to Hold On | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

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