Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complicated Defense budget has been approved by Congress (probably April). One possible successor: Air Force Secretary Donald A. Quarles, 62, a good administrator and longtime scientist-executive (Bell Labs), who has managed to keep himself out of the interservice trouble. Another: bald, short (5 ft. 7 in.), terrier-tough Charles S. Thomas, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and, since 1954, the Secretary of the Navy who helped goad conservative Navy thinking toward such innovations as guided-missile ships. Still another: retiring Supreme Allied Commander in Europe and onetime Eisenhower Chief of Staff Albert Maximilian Gruenther...
...starting Brown backfield consists of three sophomores--Beland, McTigue, and quarterback Frank Finney--and one junior, fullback Joe Miluski. So far they have all suffered from lack of experience but with the season almost over they can be expected to be tough...
What has been described as a tough neighborhood battle will probably take place with a large number of the battlers at home in bed and not out fighting. Brown has lost halfback Jack McTigue, fullback Joe Miluski, Guard Dick Crews and Tackle Gil Robertshaw...
...leaders appeared. Bela Kovacs, sturdy Smallholders secretary, recently released after nine years in Soviet prison camps, joined the government because "we must establish national unity." The Smallholders' exiled leader Ferenc Nagy had come as far as the border, but had been turned back to Switzerland by the Austrians. Tough old Ferenc Farkas, onetime National Peasant Party leader, bobbed up. Social Democrat Anna Kethly, ailing as a result of long imprisonment in Russia, was on her way back (with a supply of newsprint) when her way was barred by Soviet tanks...
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...