Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lady Caccia, smartly tailored wife of Britain's new envoy to the U.S., met capital newshens over tea", crisply ticked off her first impressions of the U.S. Was she having tough sledding because of present tensions between Britain and the U.S.? Replied she: "I don't find between women any breach to be healed." On Washington: "Much like Paris, not too different from Vienna." On Manhattan's lack of "dream department stores": "The shops there are so much more like European shops than I had expected. They are cozy and untidy, and even deal in antiques." Having...
...past five years Financier Leopold Dias Silberstein, 52, has swept up 20 companies into his Penn-Texas Corp., sometimes by stock swaps after a tough proxy fight. Last week, driving for his biggest prize of all, Chicago heavy-equipment maker Fairbanks, Morse & Co. (TIME, March 12), Silberstein ran into a brass-knuckled pier 6 brawl. The opposition came not from Fairbanks, Morse but from within Silberstein's own camp. In a New York Federal Court, dissident stockholders demanded an accounting of Silberstein's management...
Giant. In a big (3 hr. 18 min.), tough picture based on Edna Ferber's bestseller about Texas, Director George Stevens digs the rowels of social satire into the soft underbelly of U.S. materialism; with Rock Hudson. Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean (TIME...
...fear that he will go round the bend unless he takes a complete rest. Misguided Cordelia, on the other hand, is believed by her schoolteacher to be an infant prodigy. Obsessed with convictions of her own genius, she fiddles madly before audiences of ardent ignoramuses. When at last a tough old professional assures her that she is no good and never will be, Cordelia runs to her bedroom, clutching a bottle of poison. Downstairs, her father's study stands empty. Frayed to the breaking point by the scorn of common-sensical people, father Aubrey has left his wife...
Some selection committees can also be harder than others in the type of questions they ask the candidates. Some make it a routine interview ("Why do you want to study at Oxford?") while others make it tough ("What's the worst book you've ever read?"; "When did you play poker?"; "What time is it now at the North Pole...