Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They worked with the efficiency of long practice. New York's tough, rabble-rousing Harlem Congressman Vito Marcantonio and his staff wrote the keynote speech for Negro Charles Howard, a Des Moines attorney, who had once been suspended by the Bar Association for misusing funds. Marcantonio himself took charge of the Rules Committee. At his left & right hand sat Hugh Bryson, leftist boss of the C.I.O. marine cooks, and John Abt, smart and sardonic New York labor lawyer, who managed to be everywhere at once throughout the convention's three days...
Ivan Petelka was tired of teaching Canadian immigrants to speak English. It was too tough-making Hollanders, Poles and Italians study a new language from scratch, especially one with such senseless spellings, impossible pronunciations and irregular conjugations. Petelka, an ambitious, 46-year-old ex-Ukrainian who had no trouble mastering eight languages himself, thought he could cook up a simpler system...
...dozen hospital beds available for the city's 25,000 Negroes. Why not, she thought, build and run a hospital for Negroes? As she put "it to herself, it was the "proverbial better mousetrap waiting to be built." Mrs. Starr, who had nursed in the rough & tough East Texas oilfields, had never been one "to mess around with churchgoing." Just the same, she thought that Negro churches might be interested in her idea, so she made the rounds. At the 15th she struck oil. The Rev. J. Henry Hardeman's Corinth Baptist Church was about to move from...
...Haven's president. To make New England's victory over New York complete. Dumaine will move in as board chairman. He gave the job of president to Laurence F. Whittemore, 54, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, a man after Dumaine's tough Yankee heart...
...sense of guilt. His missteps, including fraud, adultery, a few burglaries and one stickup, are practically forced upon him by the Great Depression. Thus Mr. Cain has it both-ways: his boy can be a college-educated, clean-cut young American and at the same time do the tough things in the tough situations that are the mark of Cain...