Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite a tough schedule which includes Iowa, the remnants of Illinois' Whiz Kids, and national champions Holy Cros, Barclay is optimistic. "We'll give anybody we play a real battle," he says...
...explained in detail how the "get tough with Russia" foreign policy would lead to clearly-defined and amicable Soviet-American relations, while a nebulous policy of compromise, such as he said the Wallace element advocates, would invite unlimited Soviet aggrandizement and make war inevitable...
...replace this left-wing triumvirate, the U.A.W. got a Reutherite secretary-treasurer, Emil Mazey, 34, tough and trigger-witted co-director of U.A.W. operations on Detroit's East Side; and two Reutherite vice presidents, plodding Richard Gosser, 46, of Toledo, and organizing expert John Livingston, 39, of St. Louis. Like Reuther, Mazey-who would henceforth be the U.A.W.'s No. 2 man-once held a card in the Socialist Party. He is a veteran of U.A.W. picket lines; as a G.I. he led a war's-end campaign to bring the boys home early from the Philippines...
...City Hall sat the man who had his finger on this pulsebeat. Daily, at all hours, across the claret-colored rug streamed aides, colleagues, politicians, businessmen, repairmen, newsmen. The young man, who saw everyone, was the city's mayor: deLesseps ("Chep") Story Morrison, 35, handsome, bouncing, talkative, tough and stubborn...
Whose Culture? It was a tough knot to untangle. One man's information was another man's misinformation. Some found Popeye appealing, others thought him appalling...