Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would you care to know what irks me most about TIME? . . . It is a statement like the following [TIME, Sept. 3]: "When Soong talked tough, as he often did in the seven all-night conferences, Russia knew that Soong was not bluffing. Stalin, who likes straight talk, liked Soong...
...Rain, inexperience, and an initially tough opponent made the score one sided and it can't really be taken as is in estimating Harvard's strength," said Coach Jack MacDonald, in explaining the defeat...
...another busy week, and he had zipped through it in the decisive style that is now recognized as typically Truman. In one terse, five-minute press conference (see PRESS), he made the week's biggest news. He made his first appointment to the Supreme Court. He made tough-minded Robert Patterson his Secretary of War, gave his kudos and the Distinguished Service Medal to retiring Old Soldier-Elder Statesman Henry L. Stimson. With one hurried stroke he had put the scattered war labor-relations bureaus under Labor Secretary Lewis B. Schwellenbach. With one brusque stroke he had cut Economic...
Although Balzac once described the population of Paris as a horrible-looking horde, thousands of Parisians like to look and smell nice at all times. They had tough going during the war. when the quality of lotions, dyes, perfumes and other cosmetics deteriorated. Now, with peace, they are faced with higher prices because of higher taxes...
...that there may be no further nonsense, MacArthur followed up with a tough ten-point code for the press. In effect, it ordered the Japs to tell the truth, at the same time tell no truth that would hurt the U.S. Some rules...