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Word: toughly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Idaho. Leftish Senator Glen ("Cowboy") Taylor is out beating the brush for squat Attorney-Rancher George Donart. Thus Republican Henry Dworshak is running against two tough campaigners. Four-term Congressman Dworshak has a fair chance in an uphill race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Senate Sweepstakes | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...same day that Generalissimo Joseph Stalin talked peace to the world, the Soviet Government talked tough to Turkey. After having pondered for a month, the Kremlin rejected the Turkish Government's rejection (TIME, Sept. 2) of Russia's demands for joint Soviet-Turk defense of the Dardanelles (implied was a Russian base on Gallipoli). Russia also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Boo! | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

Behind this supple distinction was the embarrassment of French Communists, currently engaged in the tough task of remaining theoretically consistent, while keeping intact the centrifugal French colonial empire against the day when France may become a Communist state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: A Distinction | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...what to expect from Tony Zale, the 32-year-old middlweight champion from Gary, Ind. He had not defended his title since joining the Navy in 1942. But Rocky Graziano, the 24-year-old challenger from Manhattan's lower East Side, was a known quantity: he was rough & tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Slugfest | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...Danish accent, Bohr spoke last week on "The Observation Problem in Atomic Physics." It is, it seems, a tough one for the meticulous physicist. If you know where an electron is, you cannot measure its velocity; if you know its velocity, you cannot know where it is. There is also the difficulty of stopping time in its tracks while making an observation. It should be done, but it's impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fundamental Mysteries | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

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