Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the pickets turned up, tough, 27-year-old Danny Stradella erected a sign under his small, red canvas marquee...
...Attorney Willis made no answer, but many a lawyer made one for him. Imogene was pretty, her husband a handsome and well-to-do New Canaanite and a paratrooper major with a good war record. He had come home from Europe to stand by her. It would be a tough conviction to get from any jury...
...colleagues described Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of the Los Alamos branch of the atomic bomb's Manhattan Project, as "the smartest of the lot." Last week, just before he resigned to go back to teaching physics, tough-minded, 41-year-old Dr. Oppenheimer made the smartest statement of all the scientists who were cautioning Congress to watch its atomic step...
Suspicious of city revolutions, the tough Andinos (Andeans) of the west held out for awhile, then joined the rebels. So did the garrisons around the great Maracaibo Lake oilfields. The revolution had won, but the price had been heavy: 100 to 300 dead, 300 to 1,000 wounded...
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