Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...local favors by a stern economy order from President Roosevelt. Called by Senator Copeland "the first porkless water bill ever passed in the history of Congress," it requires payment of land and damage costs by States or localities, approval of every project by the War Department's tough-minded Board of Engineers for Rivers & Harbors...
...unusually early date for an opening game, the first Saturday of College, and an unusually tough opponent, Amherst, have forced soccer coach Jack Carr to call his men back a week in advance next fall...
...slavery and immigration. Stephen Austin and the vast majority of settlers were all for patching things up with the Government, but William Travis and a handful of other hotheads began to argue with guns. After a few skirmishes a provisional government was set up in November 1835 with big, tough Sam Houston as commander-in-chief of the army...
...tough Mexico far surpasses all other Latin-American States in the pursuit of Crime. Ever since the Spanish Conquest, notably tough individuals variously known as "rebels," "bandits" or "leaders" have led private armies against the forces of law & order. They always have a base village where they are beloved. They live off the land, sack isolated villages for food and women. Today they concentrate in the central and western States surrounding Mexico City. Through Puebla and Morelos roams El Tallarin, one of the most famed of living bandits. Jalisco belongs to Lauro Rocha. In Durango operates Francisco Vasquez. In Guanajuato...
...believes the Premier should hold no Cabinet portfolio. Meantime M. Blum was busy promulgating the means by which he expects to guarantee France peace & power in Europe: a six-sided mutual assistance treaty between France, Britain, Russia, Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, notably omitting Germany, Italy and Poland. Just how tough a job of statesmanship M. Blum had set himself was indicated last week by Chicago Daily News Correspondent Edgar Ansel Mowrer: "The chief problem confronting . . . Leon Blum, is whether France is to ... descend to the rank of a third-rate power. ... It is safe to say that never since...