Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scrimmage and is a serious contender for a tackle post. Lamar is building his end crew around Ralph Bender and George Emmons, who came out as ends and are leading the pack. But Bob Tolf, Waring, and Sitter, switched from their mid-line positions have given Lamar a tough decision to make in picking his pass receivers...
...population: about 4,000,000), mostly Moslem Turki farmers and Kazak horsemen who live in felt yurts (tents) and ride with rifles strapped on their backs. They are controlled by leaders trained and schooled in Russia. Behind the leaders is a well-equipped army of more than 25,000 tough young men who wear Russian-style uniforms and call themselves the Sinkiang Democratic Army...
...Venezuela's 4,200,000 people, 90% live close to the Caribbean coast. They prefer the mild climate, the cities' culture and the wealth from oil to a frontiersman's life in the rough & tough interior. As a result, the winning of Venezuela's West (actually its South) is still a century-old dream. An English colony failed at Betajoque, a French colony in Maracaibo; 30 miles from Caracas, the capital, is the blond, impoverished remnant of a 19th Century German colony. But the old dream lives on: now Venezuela hopes to push back her frontier...
...Southern Pacific Lark for the second of his eight campuses, Cal's jealous younger sister, the University of California at Los Angeles, to go through the routine again. He still had a long way to go" to cover all his domain. Says Bob Sproul: "Sure it's tough, but I do it purposely. I do it with the intention of making my person the visible unity of the university...
...naturally spent a good part of his time around the football field, where he turned his attention to the U-Conn line. He was to regret this somewhat on his release when, having been mustered out, and having joined Dick Harlow, he found himself face to face with a tough U-Conn forward wall in the 1946 Harvard opener. The Kopp-trained Connecticut line gave the Kopp-trained Crimson line quite a tussle that day, as Crimson fans will remember...