Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tack. With the sense of crisis gone, maneuvering in the Senate took a new tack. Senator Bob Taft wanted a tough, omnibus bill he could dump as a single package on Harry Truman's desk. If the President vetoed it, that would be all right with Bob Taft. He knew what he wanted and he was all for putting Harry Truman on the spot. Meanwhile, Democrats moved heaven & earth to have the bill split up, and thus give the President a chance to sit squarely on the fence. Truman could then court labor's support by killing...
Conventional examinations won't look so-tough this weekend in spite of impending finals and the reams of reading period study which optimistic faculty members have laid out for this week, for four hundred-odd women, many of them the corn-fed, home-bred variety, start a mass descent on the College today...
Jimmy MacPartland was back home last week. He was the only survivor in those parts" of the "Austin High gang," some of whom had gone to school together on Chicago's West Side. Saxophonist Bud Freeman, Drummer Dave Tough and Guitarist Eddie Condon were playing in Manhattan...
...territory, visiting towns in Venezuela and Colombia which had been close and nervous neighbors of the Motilones for several hundred years. heard enough Indian tales to fill a dozen pulp magazines, but they could not find a single "acultural individual." The Spanish-speaking frontiersmen, many of them outlaws, are tough characters themselves. But none had been tough enough to take up life among the Indians. No Motilon deserter to the out side world was ever found...
...tough, highly competitive oil industry, James Andrew Moffett, 60, is a man who can take care of himself in the clinches. And he likes a grudge fight. A onetime senior vice president of Standard Oil (N.J.), later board chairman of the Bahrein Petroleum Co., Ltd., Moffett stirred up such a fight last January...