Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lyubyanka is no longer a really tough prison. Anyone taken there instead of, say, Lefortovo on the outskirts of Moscow considers himself lucky. Citizens of a police state quickly acquire such vital information, as citizens of free countries know about good or bad hotels...
Brailling Along. Riddled by Mrs. Riddle's constant instructions, the first three provosts (a Riddleism for headmaster) had a tough time. She had found one of them simply by consulting a classified telephone directory, looking for likely sounding names among the clergy. When Brooks Brothers was unable to supply grey flannels because of wartime shortages, the clergyman-provost told the boys to wear what they pleased. Mrs. Riddle was outraged, and the provost resigned. Shortly after, in 1944, Founder Riddle shut down Avon and turned over the property to President Roosevelt, a family friend, for use as an Army...
...trip will not be entirely suntan and palm trees. Team members must pay for the greater part of the air-travel expense, and they can expect five or six tough afternoons on Bermuda...
...sterling character is no substitute for top grades, especially with med school overcrowding, the speakers revealed. "Unless you get mostly B's with a sprinkling of A's while in college," said Dr. Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, "the going will be tough...
...affair with a tough little Eurasian named Thelma Morrison-one of those clinical matings, ruthlessly antiromantic, which seem to be a feature of contemporary fiction, whether laid in Bombay or Westchester. His sister goes to jail in a riot, his friend Salim is assassinated and he himself attacked in ambush. His project for an airline transporting pilgrims comes to nothing (the pilgrims get airsick) and he settles down to a job as a commercial airlines pilot...