Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meant to give short shrift to an Administration bill calling for 1) a flat $40 across-the-board cut in income taxes, and 2) a revenue-balancing reinstatement of the wartime tax on excess corporate profits. Even among Democrats, the Administration bill found few enthusiasts. North Carolina's tough old "Muley" Doughton, ranking Democrat on the Knutson committee, refused to introduce it. To get this futile chore done, the White House had to go all the way down to the committee's No. 3 Democrat, John Dingell of Michigan...
...Indian government, Patel led the "war party" which insisted on a "get-tough" policy toward Pakistan. He seemed inclined also to crack down on Moslems within India: "Mere declarations of loyalty to the Indian Union will not help Moslems at this critical juncture," said Patel. Later he became bolder, and darkly hinted at open war with Pakistan. Most Sikhs and many Hindus applauded Patel. Obliquely, Gandhi observed that Patel had "thorns on his tongue." Without warning, one day last week the Mahatma began to fast...
...change my game, of course. I like to stay back and wait for the ball but now I have to come up to the net after the serve and meet Jack's attack. Jack's ahead and he's a tough player but I ... still expect to come out ahead." For cocky Bobby Riggs, that was a decidedly modest prediction. With 50-odd matches still to go, the score in matches was Kramer 6, Riggs...
...rough, tough Mike Benedum, "greatest wildcatter in the world," wanted just one more big strike. His Plymouth Oil Co. had leased 800 acres in desolate Upton County in western Texas and started to drill for oil. Plymouth drilled down 10,000 ft. and lost $1,000,000 before it quit. That...
...rosy profit figures did not cheer the stockmarket. It apparently felt that K-F's cars, overpriced when compared to other makes, may soon run into tough competition. On news of the new issue, the price of K-F's existing 4,750,000 shares of common stock fell from 14¼ to 12, then firmed up slightly at the weekend...