Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Americans had done jobs as marvelous as the Berlin air lift before. Take the time Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox dug the St. Lawrence River in three weeks. When Billy Pilgrim tried to make it tough for Babe by wetting and stretching the buckskin ropes attached to the scoop shovel, Babe just sat down until the sun came out and dried the ropes. As they dried they shrank, and pulled that scoop for miles & miles up to Babe. And there was the St. Lawrence, practically...
...Parliament Red deputies, screaming invective, blamed the government for complicity in the attack on Togliatti. But Premier de Gasperi and his tough little Interior Minister, Mario Scelba, stood their ground. Said Scelba (who, like Assassin Pallante, is a Sicilian): "It becomes the state's duty to use the whole of its force, which is considerable and can be crushing, to guarantee the liberty of all citizens...
Melancholy Mel. The fireworks were set off on the Fourth of July, but the explosion wasn't heard for twelve days. The Fourth was the day when Mel Ott, once-great ballplayer and prince among his fellows, recognized the obvious: he wasn't tough enough to be a manager. He couldn't handle his men-especially pitchers. The fans who cheered him loudest when he was socking home runs (in his day he had hit 511, an alltime National League, record) were down on him. His players were loafing on him, and second-guessing his decisions after...
...whole affair, sat the first-place Boston Braves, who didn't need a new manager. At week's end, after winning four out of five, the Braves were eight games out front in the National League. Chuckled confident Manager Billy Southworth: "I'm a tough man to beat when I'm ahead. They're really going to have to go some to beat...
Consumer Endurance. It was a tough week all around for consumers. To pay for the new wage gains of John L. Lewis & Co., soft coal mines boosted their prices 4? to 50? a ton (retail equivalent: up to $1.25 a ton). Though hard coal producers had raised prices only a month ago to cover higher wages, one of the biggest of them, Lehigh Navigation Coal Co., Inc., raised the ante again, by as much as $1.10 a ton. A few hours after the rail-wage fight was settled (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the Interstate Commerce Commission gave 61 Eastern railroads permission...