Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rough & Tough. But the real snafu, the place where the phone strike began to realize its ugly potential, was in New Jersey...
While strikers cried "Fascism," police arrested three female officers of one union. The women were promptly released on bail (and one got married), but the arrest was enough to start lawyers for both sides preparing a case to test the constitutionality of Governor Driscoll's rough-tough...
...Ancient. When World War II came he was an old man. He was as tough as his Tin Lizzie. Theoretically he had retired and handed the business over to his only, beloved son, Edsel. But he was still the real boss, striding along the great assembly lines, sitting, birdlike and domineering, among the empire's reverent executives. Once again he cried out against the stupidity of war. He was an America Firster. But when the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor, he turned his Rouge plant into an arsenal. He put his company on a seven-day week...
...know about it." That was not the way his stern old predecessor Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis regarded the job. But the baseball owners had carefully picked Happy because he was no Landis. Said Timesman Daley: "Maybe this makes Chandler tougher than Landis. But I doubt it. Landis was always tough in an intelligent fashion...
Without such clear and unmistakable documentary evidence to back up its stand, the Council will find tough sparring against the sundry proposals for hospitals and marble monuments which have hardly been cast aside by those who will make the final decision and call up the crucial funds. Negative arguments--that any necessary hospitals are ordinary University responsibility and that mausoleums in which one removes his hat cannot compare to a living memorial--serve a limited purpose only. The case can be won with advancement of the positive thesis that the College student body unequivocally wants a Student Activities Center...