Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home, the New York Times saluted her for winning Italian "respect and gratitude"; the tough New York Daily News editorialized: "We're sorry to see her go." And from President Dwight Eisenhower, who said he would miss her reports, came congratulations for "a job superbly done...
...front line soldiers fired a rifle in the direction of the enemy, 2) some 10,000 rounds of small-arms ammunition were fired for every enemy soldier wounded. 3) some 50,000 rounds were fired for every enemy killed. The burden of infantry fighting therefore fell upon the skilled, tough soldiers who operated such deadly weapons as automatic rifles, submachine guns, machine guns and mortars. Obviously needed: fewer but better infantrymen equipped with weapons of maximum firepower...
...find Thresky (short for Threskiornis, which supposedly stands for Ibis Aethiopia) there now. For the Lampoon's sacred bird-symbol is reportedly still recuperating from injuries received at the hands of the CRIMSON last Spring. And besides that, the years have been tough on this venerable symbol of recent CRIMSON-Lampoon rivalry...
...heyday, Venice pioneered the income tax, statistical science, the floating of government stock, state censorship of books, the gambling casino, and the ghetto (though no Renaissance power was less overtly anti-Semitic). Many of these reflect what Author McCarthy regards as the persistent Venetian style and temperament-dry, succinct, tough-minded. In the 18th century, the last of the doges, handing the ducal cap to an attendant, remarked matter-of-factly, "I won't be needing this any more." Venice can boast no profound thinkers, no religious martyrs, no native-born legendary lovers. Of the world, worldly, it pursued...
...outstanding play of the sophomores on the team--namely big Bob Shaunessy, quarterback McLaughlin, Nat Dodge, Woody Harris, Hal Anderson, and Pete Briggs. These men showed tremendous spirit, and Shaunessy's play in the line almost singularly forced the Blue outside. Inside the ends, the Crimson was very tough, although it did suffer a tough break when center Marv Lebovitz had to leave the game early with an injury...