Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organizational tangle that brought on Ike's order is still working against McElroy-or his three subordinate service secretaries, or the 30 assistant and deputy secretaries-achieving the required knowledge and understanding. Never has that fact been more bluntly put than last week, when the Army's tough, brainy research and development chief, Lieut. General James M. Gavin, appeared before the Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee...
...seven-headed Hydra of Greek mythology was a tough monster to be up against: every time a head was cut off, two more promptly grew in its place.* Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson sometimes feels as harried and frustrated as a man trying to kill a Hydra. Under Benson, as under his Democratic predecessors, farm surpluses have kept right on piling up, and the nation's yearly price-support bill has kept getting bigger...
...week the strike had cost city retailers more than $10 million, the city itself $2,000,000 in sales taxes and $1,000,000 more in subway revenues. There was little doubt that, in spite of the tough talk and threatened firings, the subway motormen had made it pretty clear to the jittery city that they wanted to be alone...
Coach Bob Pickett plans to send a team of six sophomores and two juniors to the mats, in an effort to give the newcomers varsity experience for the tough schedule ahead after exam period...
...sell his oil and gas holdings, estimated to be worth upwards of $200 million. Richardson, 67, who likes to say that a man's wealth can be measured by what he owes, and who just borrowed $37.5 million, is discouraged by the softening domestic oil market, the increasingly tough and costly job of exploring and drilling. Among interested prospects: Continental Oil, Humble Oil and Standard...