Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following Monday, Curtiss lost a tough decision to Brown 4-2 although holding the Bruins to six scattered hits, and last Thursday allowed the hard-hitting Big Green but five base knocks to win 4-2. With only a one day rest Curtiss started the Tufts game Saturday. Until tiring in the ninth, he gave the Jumbos four hits for a single run. Because of his brilliant performances in the last two weeks with three victories and a lone defeat, Curtiss is certain to start one of the all-important Yale encounters...
Personnel director of Ford Motor Co., as well as head Of its company police (known as "servicemen") is Henry H. Bennett. This master of tough men occupies a special place in the esteem of mild Henry Ford, perhaps because he has for years been responsible for protecting the Ford grandchildren from kidnapping of which the senior Ford is mortally afraid. One of Mr. Bennett's privileges is that he, almost alone of Ford lieutenants can speak to the press in his own name. Last week Mr. Bennett declared...
...Tall, tough President Illas, who had won a fearsome reputation for himself in Santiago by angrily shooting a panther for misbehaving in a circus and by beating up a journalist who accused him of misbehaving as Santiago's customs administrator, stormed into Havana last year as a Senator for the first time. When Senate President Justo Luis del Pozo resigned in a huff over patronage, hard-boiled Boss Batista liked hard-boiled new Senator Illas well enough to help boost him into the Senate's presidency. First thing the Senate knew, President Illas lost his temper again...
...supposed to be in hot revolt against his domination when, in April 1934, President Roosevelt got back from his Southern fishing jaunt. Yet 30 Senators and 200 Representatives were at the station with a band to greet him. To them he then addressed, in grim good humor, his famed "tough guy" speech: "I have come back with all sorts of new lessons which I learned from barracuda and sharks . . . etc., etc." (TIME, April 23, 1934). Within a few days the revolt was over and Congress settled down to whip through the President's long list of "must" legislation...
...formation of a teachers' union in the Yard . . . . causes the authorities such acute discomfort that the organizers are dismissed." Mr. Lamb then hints darkly that "Universities need a continuous flow of funds from benefactors, and concludes that although presidents of universities may feel liberal they must "act tough toward liberals because we don't see how we can afford to act otherwise...