Word: toughly
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There are, however, several complicating factors. "We're in awfully tough shape," says Penn coach Steve Sebo, and that sums up the situation quite accurately. Barney Beringer will be absent from his right end slot and Tony Capuano will not be available for duty at left guard Both were starters against Navy last week...
...Pastures: With a deft Marc Connelly adaptation of his own 27-year-old The Green Pastures, a cast of talent and dignity headed by William Warfield as The Lawd, and superb singing, direction and color sets, NBC's Hallmark Hall of Fame went into the lists against a tough one last week−CBS's go-minute electronic botch of Mike Todd's exercise in mass gaucherie at Madison Square Garden (see PEOPLE). Everything was on the side of Green Pastures−except the audience. The results, according to Trendex: Heaven, 12.5; Sodom and Gomorrah...
...this is not at all like keeping humans alive on a satellite or other space vehicle. The difficulties are enormous, and much greater weights of life-preserving equipment must be lifted into space than is possible with today's biggest rockets. The problem of return to earth looks tough too. At the present state of the art, men who fly into space could not return alive...
Died. William C. De Koning Sr., 59, shrewd, tough ("I ain't afraid of no one") Long Island labor hustler and strong-arm boy, convicted of extortion in 1954 after a four-year crusade by Long Island's Newsday (for which it won the Pulitzer Prize); of chronic hepatitis; in Mineola, N.Y. A.F.L. Organizer De Koning bullied his way from Local 138 of the International Union of Operating Engineers into a prosperous, politically insured Nassau County kingdom, reputedly decided who could or could not construct a new housing development. Expanding in 1943 to catch some of Roosevelt Raceway...
...Army's Black Knights were supposed to have a tough time handling the powerful invaders from Pitt. They did−for half the game. After that they got rolling and wrecked the Panthers...