Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...September, filibustering Peruvians staged a private raid, seized Leticia. expelled the town's Colombian officials and called on all Peru to applaud their deed. Most of Peru applauded. The surge of patriotism was too strong to be resisted by President Luiz M. Sanchez Cerro of Peru, into whose tough little body would-be assassins have all too often fired bullets (TIME, March 14). By the end of last September both Colombia and Peru were mobilizing men, money and munitions. In Bridgeport, Conn, on Sept. 30, close-lipped Saunders Norvell, president of Remington Arms Co., exuberantly exclaimed: "We have just...
...envisages himself as the captain of the next Senate, with a radical economic program to put through. He is for President Roosevelt only so long as President Roosevelt is for him. His tactics last week drove a big wedge deep into his party and left President Roosevelt the tough job of choosing, after March 4, between the conservative Robinson-Glass oligarchy in the Senate or the rampant Long-Wheeler-Thomas faction...
...much ever happens in Chamberlain, especially since old (90 years) Charles Morey Lockwood left for the Soldiers' Home at Minneapolis, Minn. where he could find some "rough, tough pinochle players." He believes himself the last northwesterner alive who ran away from the First Battle of Bull Run (July 21, 1861). On the anniversary he tipples from a bottle of burgundy kept in a bank safe...
...invaded the country Mr. Zemurray had made his own through a $200,000 revolution. Mr. Cutter, smooth-haired Dartmouth graduate, was replacing tropical tramps on his plantations with ambitious graduates of agricultural and engineering schools. Sam Zemurray did not care where his men came from and he preferred them tough...
Cambridge, always a community infested with beggars, deserving or otherwise, has in this particular taken a decided turn for the worse during the depression. To the company of the old lady with the remarkably heavy bundle have joined themselves amateurs of all descriptions, young and old, tough and tender, sober and heary, but with the one symbol of their Freemasonry, the refrain "Could jalemme have a dime for a cuppa coffee Mister?" which of these poor wretches are deserving are merely down on their luck, and which are moochers, beggars pure and simple, the casual passerby can hardly determine...