Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Connecticut only three days away by station wagon, Dick Harlow put his boys through their paces against U-Conn plays yesterday afternoon in a tough day of dummy scrimmage. Big Vince Moravec was back on the field for the first time since he bumped his leg Monday, looking strong and leaving observers not too much in doubt about his readiness for some action Saturday...
...realize the paramount importance of this question, consider how simply other problems, which seem almost insoluble, would be resolved once we were sure of Russian intentions. We would know how to deal with the Muscovites in United Nations councils--Whether to be friendly and conciliating or tough and unyielding. We would know how to handle the secret of atomic power-whether to share it or guard it zealously and develop even more devestating weapons. It we were sure we could trust the Kremlin the problem of peacefully channeling atomic energy would be reduced to a difficult job of organization...
Although President Conant thought such individuals are probably born, not made, and that education would not alter the degree of tough-mindedness, it could "modify the ambitions and goals of many men. If I am right in this and there be merit in my preference for a certain type of idealist, the way certain problems are handled in our universities may have considerable influence on the future of this nation...
...Prefers Tough Idealist...
...tough-minded idealist," he said, "all phrases which describe noble sentiments are subjects for analysis. Some he may find largely poetical expressions to be defined only in terms of the emotions they evoke many others, including the description of such American ideals as 'equality of opportunity' and 'social justice' on the other hand, he will find to have real content...