Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elected to Parliament in 1924 from the tough shipyard and foundry constituency of Stockton-on-Tees, Macmillan was deeply moved by the suffering that the Depression brought to his constituents, established "dole schools" which he personally financed, to teach unemployed workers useful crafts. In Parliament he acidly attacked the inaction of his own Conservative Party, called it a "party dominated by second-class brewers and company promoters." In 1936 he even crossed the aisle to vote with Labor in censuring the government's inaction in depressed areas. The task of his generation, he cried, was "to conquer poverty...
...Matching these concessions by trying to reassert Communist control over the farmers, Wladyslaw Gomulka appointed Politburo Member Edward Ochab (once called "a Communist with teeth" by Stalin) to take over the Ministry of Agriculture. Tough and toothy Ochab would have much to chew...
...bathe all of Algeria in blood. Algeria, however, was already pretty thoroughly bathed in blood -18,000 Algerians and more than 3,000 Frenchmen have been killed this year. Last week French Resident Minister Robert Lacoste concentrated both civil and military police powers in the Algiers area in the tough hands of Brigadier General Jacques Massu, who commanded French paratroops in the Suez invasion. "The battle for Algeria," proclaimed Lacoste, "has reached its final phase...
...will now be some bigger payoffs. The new champion is not an exciting fighter or remotely as great as the one he succeeded. But he promises to be a diligent one, and there ought to be some lively Donnybrooks in the middleweight division before Gene Fullmer runs into anyone tough and smart enough to dethrone...
Hastings scored from all over, in playing his best game of the season. He was a man Wilson had counted on, and his play greatly encouraged the coach. "We will be a tough team to beat if we get more games like that from Hastings," he said...