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Word: toughly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since 1923 (except for one term). Under the city's home-rule charter, he has become one of the most powerful municipal dictators in the U.S. But last week there were signs that Democrat Stapleton might be unhorsed. For the first time in a decade he had a tough opponent: wealthy, Yale-trained Republican Quigg Newton, a onetime legal secretary to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who had the backing of a growing reform movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLORADO: Interminable Ben | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...news spread to Haifa. Thousands stopped work and swarmed angrily toward Bat Galim. They passed Barclay's Bank Building, shattered by a bomb soon after the ship's interception (two Jews were killed). Then they ran into tough, maroon-bereted British paratroopers, who barred their way. Jews and soldiers traded insults. Then the Jews went away into the dusk of Sabbath eve. Four hours after the first encounter aboard the Arlosoroff the fight went out of the immigrants on the ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Sabbath Solace | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...expect to do the same to B.U. as we did against Cornell" Coach Peroy stated. Yardligs faced tough competition against Worcester, the only team that has beaten them this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fencers Take On B.U. Today; Freshmen Challenge Worcester | 3/5/1947 | See Source »

...against us. We've got, the Advocate, but they may not unleash their power in time. Of course, you might say we've also got the Society for the Preservation of Free Enterprise. On freedom from enterprises naturally appeals to them. But that Varsity crowd is going to be tough to lick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/5/1947 | See Source »

...heels of Henry Wallace's "stop getting tough with Russia" speech, Radio Moscow broadcast a statement in which Stalin did all but one of these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz, Mar. 3, 1947 | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

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