Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invasion of Egypt, Dulles had not consulted Britain on canceling the offer to build Egypt's Aswan High Dam. (The facts: Britain got one day's advance warning that the U.S. was considering cancellation; in any event, Britain had long been urging the U.S. to get tough with Nasser.) And in London last week nobody was more surprised than New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Don Cook when the Foreign Office's august Permanent Undersecretary, Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, whisked him aside during a party to propound that unless the U.S. went along with the British on Suez...
...Gomulka had his chance to get tough with the Russians a few weeks later when Moscow took umbrage at his cavalier firing of Marshal Rokossovsky. A delegation of the Soviet Party Presidium came flying into Warsaw and Khrushchev stepped out, arms flailing, shouting insults at the Poles. Gomulka was calm. When Khrushchev asked, "Who is that?" Gomulka replied, "It is I, Gomulka, the man you sent to jail." The Russians' coup de théâtre flopped because one of Gomulka's supporters had taken the precaution of arming the workers of the Zeran works, and another...
Smoldering Cigars. Floyd Patterson, a cool ("He's like ice in a glass," said a trainer), lithe and rope-muscled Negro, was potentially the youngest champion (as Moore was undoubtedly the oldest). Only a few years before, Patterson had been an underprivileged Brooklyn kid, a tough and aimless truant who ran with the back-street gangs and snarled himself into a school for wayward boys. He came out of a lower East Side gymnasium to win the 1952 Olympic middleweight championship at 17, went on through a passel of rugged amateur scraps and only one defeat in 31 professional...
...event, piggybacking is here to stay. And for all their arguments, truckers will have a tough time selling their worries to any U.S. motorist who has crawled painfully up a long grade behind a line of exhaust-spewing tractor-trailers. Atop the same mountain grades where the Southern Pacific has its piggyback signs, another series of signs has been put up by California citizens' committees. Their message: "Write your Congressman. Make U.S. 40 four lanes." Either that, or, as the Southern Pacific says, put the trucks on piggyback...
...assumption of cultural superiority coupled with military inferiority, it seems absurd that an intensification of the conflict should lead us to abandon our only effective weapon in the battle for men's minds. We are not, and cannot be, prepared to compete with the Russians in a get tough program. The American public, after all, will not tolerate for themselves either the political gangsterism demonstrated in the Hungarian episode, or the national impoverishment which would be required to match Soviet military potential. Our alternative must be to dramatize our fondness for high living, our washing machines, nylons, and vacations...