Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bill's job has been offered to an Englishman who has never worked for a newspaper. John Duncan Miller, 44-year-old Cambridge man, onetime book publisher and architect, was a wartime colonel, now works in Chicago for the British Information Service. His tough assignment: to explain Britain to a Midwest whose loudest citizen-Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Anglophobic Chicago Tribune-doesn't want to listen. Miller was offered the new job not on the strength of his only published writing, a book of Clerihews,* but because he is a friendly fellow with a considerable awareness...
...members, "an out." The presence of a strictly-non-Communist ADA guarantees to individual PCA members that, should be Communists in the PCA camp ever get too tough to handle, there's always the ADA around, "which doesn't have such troubles...
...Midnite at Eddie Condon's" and "Inside on the Outside" clarinetist Ed Hall pulling for the old timers and Charley Shavers for the new-have a seesaw tug of war over a weird New Orleans type of riff intricately decorated by Dave Tough's exotic drumming. Joe Sullivan's piano solo on the second chorus of "Honey Suckle Rose" is an imaginative recollection of Fats Waller and "Wild Bill" ploughs a safe and sane path through the final chorus of "Sentimental Baby." It almost sounds as if, God forbid, he was reading it off a score, there...
...crawl out of their dugouts and reportedly offered to give in. Troops are being taken out of their unwanted task, not because the strike was broken, and a truck strike is comparatively easy to beat, but because the unruly men had won. That school of thought which considers be-tough-on-labor the final panacea for American working ills has considerable reading to do in the weeks ahead. Labor can be tough...
With this match the grapplers halted operations for the duration of the examination period, although daily practice is being held in the wrestling room. First meet of the new term will see them facing Army, and in the words of Coach Boston, "The honeymoon is over with three tough meets coming up in the first two weeks of the new term...