Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through India rumors were spreading that Bose had not really died but was alive and working underground. The Buttercups almost wished that it were true. Bose alive was not nearly so tough to handle as Bose dead...
These were all signs that the tough, democratic talk of forthright U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden could be heard across the Caribbean. Elsewhere in Central America there were disturbing proofs that headaches only begin when tyrants are tossed...
This week, as Somoza's Cabinet resigned, Nicaraguans demonstrated against him, hoped to rid the country of him. Tough, cocky Dictator Somoza had been talking about withdrawing his candidacy for next November's presidential elections. His plan: elect a stooge, run the country as commandant of the National Guard, thus keep some 51 cattle ranches, 46 coffee haciendas and other trophies of his years in office...
Married. Lieut. General Lewis Hyde Brereton, 55, rough-&-tough Annapolis-graduated air corps oldtimer, whose varied World War II commands took him from the Philippines (at Pearl Harbor time) to India to Africa to Europe, where his Ninth (tactical) Air Force helped blast the way for invasion; and Londoner Zena Amanda Bell Groves, 34, whom he met in England when she was chauffeuring dignitaries as a Motor Corps member; he for the third time, she for the second; at Mitchel Field...
...than a turkey, the dodo lived on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. Life in that restricted world was so safe and so easy that the dodo became defenseless. With the arrival of settlers on Mauritius, the birds were slaughtered by man & beast. The dodo's flesh was tough and tasteless and it might have survived in spite of its dim-witted clumsiness-but pigs smashed the eggs and monkeys ate the young...