Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just Turned Around. In all, nine defendants named Roosevelt Carlos Hurd as the trigger man. Tough, bespectacled little Mr. Hurd denied that he had shot Willie Earle. Said his account of the lynching: "Somebody fired a gun two or three times. I don't know who fired the gun. I did not have a gun. . . . When I seen they were going to kill the Negro, I just turned around because I did not want to see it happen...
...money to re-institute the ante-bellum miracle of full tutorial, the English Department is at least making sure that its huge enrollment gets an organic grasp of the chopped-up area. For this reason the members of the Department can feel that they made the best of a tough situation; but it must also be unpleasant to watch the standards of one of the University's most famous fields decline before their eyes...
Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, tough and able pal of Hermann Göring (and like him a onetime drug addict), never made any bones about his ruthlessness in war, except for the standard excuse of "military necessity." He was proud of having ordered the bombing of helpless Warsaw and of surrendered Rotterdam. He was "very happy" for the opportunity to try to blast Coventry...
...most sought after by bandleaders, Broadway's huge Paramount Theater. For some of the boys in his band, Drummer Sonny Greer, Harry Carney, baritone sax, and Guitarist Freddy Guy, it was also an anniversary. They had gone into the Cotton Club with the Duke 20 years ago. Tough little Saxophonist Johnny Hodges joined them there...
Nero at Nine. Forty-six-year-old Author Caldwell's life story is as extraordinary as Frank's and much more convincing. At nine, soon after her arrival in the tough world of North America, she wrote her first novel-a story of the persecution of the Christians by the Emperor Nero. By twelve, she had done a novel about the French Revolution. She also attended grade school. But father Arthur Caldwell, who was a commercial artist, disapproved of pampering and educating women. When his daughter was 15 and had just finished a biography of Christ...