Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strana (Little Town) had been a school for young nobles under the Habsburgs and a Gestapo court under the Nazis. Last week it had a new tenant. Out of its modernized office suites walked mousy-looking Social Democrat Premier Zdenek Fierlinger, to be Vice Premier of Czechoslovakia. In came tough-looking Communist Vice Premier Klement Gottwald to be Premier...
...U.S.S.R. art may not be long but it is extra tough. Last week the Soviet creative artist got marching orders from Kultura i Zhizn (Culture and Life), a new fortnightly which Moscow's Department of Agitation and Propaganda has founded to guide him onward & upward...
...most prestigious Negro college in the South, 58-year-old Thomas Jones decided it was time to leave. His old Quaker alma mater, Indiana's small, earnest Earlham College (enrollment: 450), had offered him its presidency. Behind him in Nashville, slow-speaking, spiritual Thomas Elsa Jones left a tough challenge to his old students: "The Negro will get respect when he does things to command respect...
...shrewdness in acquiring property for these institutions and raising funds to pay for it made her seem to many a sharp businessman a kind of saintly Hetty Green. And she was as tough as she was canny...
Twenty Questions (Sat. 8 p.m., Mutual). The old parlor game with a four-party panel trying to guess tough subjects...