Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hardworking, dog-tired Finance Minister James Ilsley. Now he named Ilsley to the easier Justice Ministry. Justice Minister Louis St. Laurent, who had been handling foreign relations for several months as well, would now devote all his time to the External Affairs Ministry. To fill Ilsley's tough Finance job, Mr. King named young Douglas Abbott, National Defense Minister...
...British cinema's ranking male idol, James Mason, explained why he was so popular in nasty-tough roles: "It's because there's a taste for sadism, especially in the post-war period...
Last week, after a month-long hurly-burly of tough talk and newspaper publicity, Steubenville's eager preachers were turned down. At the same time, 300 miles away in Louisville, Ky., the Committee on Institutions of the Louisville Council of Churches was applying its own method to the problem of local crime. To Steubenville's rampageous reformers the committee's methods might seem sissified. But they have one peculiar advantage: they are working...
...Freshmen had the score board working like a cash register in the last few minutes of play, pushing the score up from the low seventies through the eighties against some tough opposition defensive play by Dave Fisher, the Middies' top point tallier. The Navy neared physical exhaustion at the end of the contest, as a result of futile tracking of the more practised Yardling hoopsters...
...chief difficulty in handing the question, Herter said. Irresponsible strikes must be controlled, the Wagner Act revised to apply only to employer-employee cases, and internal operations of unions must be made public if things are to go on a sound basis. Such changes are not designed as a tough policy, but only to control the injustice of present laws...