Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...players in his position. Before each game, the Bears' elaborate card index of the weaknesses in rival players is brought out and studied. Sample: the New York Giants' 225-lb. left tackle, Tex Coulter (dropped from West Point in June because his math grades were poor) is tough on defense, but he is apt to be a vulnerable link when the Giants have the ball. Halas' Bears practice three hours a day, get three lectures a week and homework...
...coaches or followers of the Crimson cindermen. The Rhode island. Rams, however, who cleaned up in cross country this fall with 15 point scores, are traditionally strong in the running events and can be expected to put both the Crimson mile and two-mile relay teams to a tough test. The Bruins are bringing only one team, a quartet for the two-mile event...
...guilty or guiltier in the minds of the spectators were the witnesses: snaggle-toothed Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, able and ruthless wartime commander in Italy; and tough, ugly Lieut. Colonel Herbert Kappler, the SS officer who carried out Kesselring's orders down to the last pistol shot...
...From this small beginning, big tough it appeared at the time, the Observatory has grown to one of the largest research institutions in the world," says Charles A. Federer, Jr., Editor of the Observatory's monthly magazine, Sky and Telescope. The old refractor and meridan circle apparatus have been replaced long ago by more than 30 separate instruments, varied in design and highly specialized in function...
...woman trouble there'll be Steve's secretary, a tasty Samoan dish named Feeta Feeta. Harder to handle will be Copper Calhoon, "not exactly a good girl, yet within the legal limits. She's the daughter of a Wall Street wolf and just as tough as her old man. It's much easier to make a gal a baddie than a goodie. My plots are complicated. You've got to read it every day so that you'll know what happens. Make it so they can't stand...