Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Putting more money into basic research is only the beginning, the easy part, as Edward Teller and his fellow scientists see it. The tough problem is to bring about a drastic improvement in science education in the nation's high schools in order to ensure an adequate supply of scientists in the future. Only one U.S. high-school student out of two dozen takes any physics at all, and only one out of four takes algebra...
...Republican: 25%). The G.O.P. also faces a mathematical disadvantage in next year's congressional elections. Of 32 Senate seats up, five are safely occupied by Southern Democrats, eight safely occupied by Republicans, and 13 occupied by Republicans who won by narrow margins last time around and will have tough campaigns...
...true without the costumed grandiosity that Hollywood usually purveys as local color. He does not give us pale demigods or villains with waxed black mustaches; the three men he presents us with are for the most part fully believable in a believable if distant situation. One of the three, tough guy Bogart, illustrates the motif of the film, that "gold can destroy men's souls," his degeneration coming almost in retribution for his claim that he is immune to the poison of the yellow dust. The other two seem ready to yield also, but they...
...Star System. His success was dazzling. For three decades tough, cocksure L. B. Mayer was the most important man in Hollywood. He knew exactly what Americans wanted and he gave it to them, by ballyhooing unknown kids into superglamorous movie stars. He found Robert Taylor at Pomona College and Joan Crawford in a chorus line. His star system, soon copied by his competitors, developed Gilbert, Murray, Gable, Tracy, Garson, Garbo, Powell, Astaire and Turner, clustered them and others in such big-money films as Ben Hur, The Good Earth, Grand Hotel and Dinner at Eight. If need be, Mayer could...
...Hamlet, they say, is the most fascinating of plays-and Hamlet the most irresolute of princes. But, Author West suggests, how about taking another look at Shakespeare's text? Instead of seeming an ambivalent neurotic with a pure heart, does the sweet prince not really emerge as a tough, virile "Renaissance man" who stops at nothing...