Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clouds and more in the realm of political give and take. And in this atmosphere it will have the best chance to date of proving whatever promise it may have. If Western European governments were edgy about Stassen's private meetings with Zorin, they stood firm and tough in the face of Russian-inspired propaganda on the horrors of the H-bomb. The President of the U.S. was hopeful enough about the disarmament talks to make them a major effort of his Administration, and he felt tough enough about them to fight for the biggest peacetime defense budget...
Chief architect of the new approach is tough Lieut. General James M. Gavin, Army Research and Development boss, who before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee last week flung a basic reverse-twist challenge to Air Force doctrine: "In the missile era, the man who controls the land will control the space above it. The control of land areas [rather than air] will be decisive...
...grandson of a marshal of France, and an ex-army officer with a hard-earned World War II resistance record, he is a man of proven courage. A minister in six postwar governments, who as head of Defense had spearheaded the Suez adventure and the get-tough Algerian policy, he has political experience, ambition, determination. What probably caused Bourgès' voice to break like an adolescent's as he read out his speech was that he knew as well as everyone else that his program offered no solution for France's financial crisis, no hope...
...from San Francisco and the Golden Gate. At the sandy tip of a new superhighway pushing across the hills from Richmond to the industrial town of Crockett, an army of mammoth machines comes noisily to life; their motors growl and their exhausts spout blue fumes into the mountain air. Tough, broadnosed bulldozers hungrily tear up the soil; potbellied scrapers scoop and level it; lumbering compact-ers press it down with their massive weight. Directly before the machines looms a 500-ft. hill that stood in the way of the inland-bound gold seekers of the 1840s, forced the Southern Pacific...
...field kit and mottled grey-green camouflage battle dress, 28 men of West Germany's 19th Airborne Battalion marched through heavy spring rains one morning last week to the bank of the deceptively calm Iller River, just outside the Swabian city of Kempten. Commanding the platoon was a tough but well-liked Stabsoberjäger (staff sergeant) named Peter Julitz, 24. At the river's edge Platoon Leader Julitz made a quick decision: "We're going to ford the river," he told his men. "In battle, the bridge might be out, and we'd have...