Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quantico Marines, Georgetown, and Navy are expected to provide the toughest games of a tough week. The Leathernecks are coached by Captain Raymond "Hap" Spuhler, who learned his baseball at Duke from Jack Coombs, the former great Philadelphia Athletics' pitcher. Coombs and McInnis played together with...
...tough Dominican Exile Miguel Angel Ramirez, who had led his ragtag Legion in the fighting that put Figueres in power just a year before, was bitter: "The ticos [Costa Ricans] have our guns now. They have no need for them now, so they've put them away in a damp cellar to corrode. That's the way they feel about...
...Tough Competition...
...Bitter Assessment. This was too much, at last, even for steel-tough Gary (pop. 135,000), which had only murmured over seven other murders since Jan. 1 (all the killers were caught). Gary had long been used to crime. Six years ago some minor hoodlums of the Capone syndicate took over the town, infested it with prostitutes and panders, bookmaking joints and blind pigs...
...tough labor policy showed itself last week in the northwestern Province of Tucumán, where the government set out to break a strike of sugar workers as it had previously broken strikes by printers and bakers. But if Evita was being retired, the process was so gradual as to defy detection. This week, she and her husband were to be co-starred in another of their super-colossal productions with a cast of thousands-descamisados and the army-celebrating the new constitution...