Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tensions and uncertainties, Florida's Senator Claude Pepper, fervent New Dealer and able, if not popular, member of the potent Foreign Relations Committee, rose in the Senate to make a cool defense of the Soviet Union and a fiery attack on Harry Truman's policy of "getting tough" with Russia...
...voyage from Bikini, Juda and his people ate K-rations with apparent relish. Progress chuckled over a victory. But as soon as they reached Rongerik, the islanders fell upon the coconuts and the sweet, tough pandanus fruit strewn about the beach...
Little Father Lenin was having a tough time of it. In 1942, the Finsbury Borough Council had erected a statue to Russia's First Proletarian in front of the Holford Square house in which he had once lived. Since then, the dead-white bust on its red marble base has had nary a moment's peace. Time & again it has been defaced-once with black paint of such tenacity that the slyly benign features remained permanently piebald...
...Crimson's contribution to the N.C.A.A. swimming meet Friday and Saturday at Yale's Payne Whitney pool, Chuck Hoelzer and Ted Norris, both Freshmen, will be entered in what Coach Hal Ulen calls "a tough assignment, but worth the inspiration and experience...
Print papers have a gelatinous silver emulsion on a tough paper base. In the Resisto papers the base is impregnated with an acetate which makes it practically waterproof. Developing, fixing and washing solutions are thus absorbed by the emulsion only. Using Resisto, photographers need take only two minutes for fixing, four minutes for washing, three minutes for drying their prints. The results, says Eastman, are durable...