Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman Doctrine had been addressed primarily to the Russians, who understood it perfectly. It meant "Stop Shoving," and the shoving at least became a bit gentler in Greece, Turkey, France, Italy. But Europe, hungry and jittery, was inclined to think the U.S. was "getting tough." Even that notably un-jittery institution, the Vatican, felt a necessity to disassociate itself (TIME, June 23) from the strong U.S. line...
...Party was worried. As he took me into the box overlooking the auditorium, he said: "Yesterday the Communists sent down a truckload of agitators from Budapest to organize things for this meeting." He pointed out a group of 150 men bunched together, halfway down the side aisle. They looked tough, all right...
...final round last week, nobody felt like objecting. Britain's sports pages were full of the Babe. They called her "Tough Babe," used such adjectives as "spectacular" and "phenomenal." They told Britons what most Americans already knew: that the Babe was also no slouch at javelin throwing, hurdling, swimming, shot-putting, baseball, high jumping, tennis and basketball, and that she had won 15 straight U.S. golf tournaments before crossing the Atlantic "for the only major women's golf title I have left to win." The British women's amateur was also the only major British golf title...
That attitude got him through the tough grind which made good golfers spray tee shots into the wire-haired rough, even quit in disgust...
...look like. Ella Raines has a lot of sneering snap as the kind of top-grade personal secretary whq works a 168-hour week. Edmond O'Brien shows enough honest heelishness, and little enough hard-boiled mawkishness, to be one of the most likable of the tough young thriller heroes who move into Evil's den and drag it out by the short hair...