Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Timing Tough...
Rockne took his teams to both coasts and to the Gulf. The annual game with Army became one of football's classics. Talk about the tough Irish schedules, Rockne's half-time orations, his famed Four Horsemen, his theatrical shift and the fancy footwork of Notre Dame backfields topped all football talk in the '20s. Gate receipts went up (last year, after carrying deficits from other sports, Notre Dame netted $240,000 from football)-and so did some new college buildings...
Army researchers (still continuing) had yet to produce the hoped-for result: a repellent based on mosquito psychology. But they had confirmed one popular theory: mosquitoes like some people better than others. The reason was still a mystery, except for the observation that mosquitoes dislike tough, hairy skins. Given a wide choice, they select a broad expanse of hairless human back...
...Sleep. Humphrey Bogart & wife (Lauren Bacall), amusingly tough in Raymond Chandler's kick-in-the-teeth thriller (TIME...
...located on a tiny lake-island in a vast English estate-among the now-ruined "Vistas, Obelisks, Pyramids . . . Rotundas, and Palladian Bridges" through which Pope, Dr. Johnson, Boswell and Garrick once roamed. The present-day heiress to the tumbledown estate is ten-year-old Maria, "one of those tough and friendly people who do things first and think about them afterward." The plot of Mistress Mas ham's Repose revolves around the efforts of Maria's fiendish guardians to abduct the Lilliputians and sell them to Hollywood...