Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tough talk, hard-driving little Habib Bourguiba has done his best to keep Tunisia on good terms with France, a month ago even suggested a formal alliance between the two countries. His tiny army is no match for the hard-bitten Algerian forces that have infiltrated Tunisia, and the sympathies of the Tunisian peoples are with the Algerian rebels. If Gaillard brought too much pressure to bear on Tunisia, there was a real danger that Bourguiba might be replaced by someone fanatically hostile not only to France but to the entire West...
Across the river, in Khartoum's sister city of Omdurman,*inside a mud-walled courtyard cut off from the street by a corrugated iron door and guarded by a somnolent sentry, an intelligent, tough and tenacious Sudanese politician sat on the edge of a sagging couch, downed numberless cups of coffee as he conferred busily with a steady flow of visitors. His Excellency Sayed Abdullah Khalil wants to win next month's election for his Umma (Nation) Party and keep the post he now holds: Prime Minister of the Sudan...
...would welcome a chance to annex the country, is meanwhile trying to force it into a Nasser-styled policy of neutrality. The Soviet Union, which recognizes that the Sudan is a gateway to the African continent, has tried its best blandishments. That neither has succeeded is largely due to tough-minded Premier Abdullah Khalil...
...Kramer's shilling ($125,000 worth, to be exact) and was whipped by almost every pro he played, a few cynical sports suggested that last week's tight tennis was all an act. But no one with decent eyesight took the sneers seriously; the matches were too tough, too tense to be the least bit phony. In Sydney a fine two-hour contest of four sets sent Pancho to the showers with an aching forearm muscle and a stomach tied in knots. In Adelaide. Pancho's tennis-toughened hands took such a beating that he lost...
Aeroflot pilots, though experienced, have won a daredevil reputation for going up in bird-walking weather. This can make for tough and treacherous travel, since they fly without electronic navigation aids in the back-country areas where airports are not equipped for instrument landings. What kind of safety record they have, no Westerner knows; Aeroflot does not announce crashes unless foreigners are on board. But there have been three crashes in the past three months alone that took 30 lives...