Word: toughly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Inflation. I bought him a drink, then three more, at Frank's tavern, and he told me how tough things were these days along Skid Row. "It's the inflation," he said, "a guy can't make a living on the bum any more. You gotta have 15 to 20 bucks a week. Used to be you could walk into the Shamrock and lay down 11? and the barkeep would pour you two stiff shots of rye. Now it costs you 20? a single shot at Frank's or Jack's or the House...
...Bumming is tough. You just can't go up and ask a man for a dime: he knows you can't get nothin' for a dime any more. Trouble is there are too many jobs offered along Madison Street. The railroads are doing everything except promising vice-presidencies. You can get 84?an hour with $1.50 a day for board and room, plus transportation from West Madison Street to wherever the gandy-dancing job is. But the railroad employment offices on West Madison Street don't get any more men today than they did before...
...Tough of mind, weak of body, he rested when he could, which was not often. His retreat was a modest cottage on Long Island, where he lolled around in a linen cap and pastel-colored beach robe. There, last week, in the small cottage, Sidney Hillman suffered a heart attack and died...
...Friends. The Russians are bulking nard at their enemies. In Ihuringia, Adolf Hitler's "tough and trusty province," denazification boards have cleaned out 90% of the Civil Service lists, 98% of the teachers. At the same time, however, the Russians are courting pet Germans. Civil government offices for Germans are always more comfortable and pleasant than the Russian Military Government offices. Officers salute, click their heels, proffer cigarets and act toward the Germans with a grave courtesy that many an American officer has not yet learned. In Weimar the reporters went down to the National Theater and found...
...Earl Browder returned from his mysterious mission to Moscow (TIME, July 8), Earl and NR Editor Bruce Bliven went into a huddle. Bliven outlined a series of controversial subjects Browder might write about, some of them designed to indicate what Browder was up to. Browder crossed out all the tough ones, agreed to write about such subjects as what the U.S. must do to win friendship with the U.S.S.R. He will do at least five articles. For the first one (about Finland) Browder will get-if he works at New Republic's 2?-a-word space rate-about...