Word: toughing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...People say it's hard to tell us apart, and it is tough to tell us apart physically," Dana says. "But once they get to know us, they will be able to tell the differences...
...these voracious adversaries. Germs of every description strive tirelessly to invade the comfortably warm and bountiful body, entering through the skin or by way of the eyes, nose, ears and mouth. Fortunately for man's survival, most of them fail in their assault. They are repelled by the tough barrier of the skin, overcome by the natural pesticides in sweat, saliva and tears, dissolved by stomach acids or trapped in the sticky mucus of the nose or throat before being expelled by a sneeze or a cough. But the organisms are extraordinarily persistent, and some occasionally breach the outer defenses...
...Andrei Gromyko, the perennial sourpuss of Soviet diplomacy, used to say when reacting to peaceful rhetoric from the West, "One must distinguish between words and deeds." That advice has always applied particularly to the U.S.S.R. Soviet foreign policy has been marked by tactical retreats and no- more-Mr.-Tough-Guy public relations campaigns before. In 1919 Vladimir Lenin cautioned his Foreign Minister, Georgi Chicherin, who was preparing to address an international conference in Genoa, "Never mind the hard language." Lenin pursued conciliatory policies toward Poland and the then independent Baltic states. By the 1940s, those nations had all been brutally...
...President Simone Veil hinted at possible support for a Socialist government in the future if its policies prove acceptable. Chirac's neo-Gaullist Rally for the Republic (R.P.R.) party found itself just as demoralized but at least united behind what Assembly Whip Pierre Messmer called "intelligent opposition," meaning a tough stand that will stop short of systematic naysaying. Chirac himself is still mayor of Paris but otherwise faces an uncertain future...
...going to pat my team on the back today," Matthews said. "But I'll give them credit for coming up tough at the end when...