Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part of their woes the Reds can thank an increasingly tough campaign by the Italian government to curb their power. Starting less than three years ago under then-Premier Mario Scelba, the government forced Communists out of some newspaper plants illegally occupied during the last days of World War II, then ordered state-owned businesses to stop advertising in Red papers. When private businessmen also pulled out, advertising virtually vanished from the Communist press. Furthermore, where the Reds once got all the newsprint they wanted from Iron Curtain nations on unlimited credit terms, the Italian government refused import permits except...
...their optimism Cypriots forgot the traditional stiff-necked British reluctance to negotiate with "rebels and outlaws." They also overlooked the fact that Colonel Nasser's as yet unpunished defiance of Britain at Suez made it politically attractive to the Eden government to continue a tough line in Cyprus (a restive group of Tory backbenchers known as the "Suez group" keeps urging on Eden the dated simplicities of gunboat diplomacy...
...tranquillity that settled last week over Britain's terror-torn Mediterranean base rested on a strange foundation. Field Marshal Sir John Harding, the peppery British Governor of Cyprus, had doggedly reiterated the terms on which Britain would abandon her "get tough" policy in the island: "Let the murderers make the first move if there is to be a stopping of violence." Unexpectedly, E.O.K.A. did just that. In leaflets scattered throughout Cyprus, "Dighenis the Leader'' of E.O.K.A. (presumably former Greek Army Colonel George Grivas) ordered "from today suspension of operations by all forces under my authority," in return...
...will live even if Mickey fails. And even if the 60-homer mark is passed, Ruth will reign supreme. His name still fills the record books. For all his switch-hitting talents, Mickey will never pitch 29⅔ consecutive scoreless innings in World Series play. He will have a tough time even approaching the Babe's lifetime total of 714 homers. It will be many a long summer before he bats in 2,209 runs. As long as he remains a Yankee, Mantle will be playing his home games in the House That Ruth Built...
...Americans and Australians as colonials without much culture. In his eigth novel, British Author Nevil Shute has set up a kind of midget contest between these two "uncultivated" cultures. The contest arises when a bunch of American oilmen arrive in Australia's spinifex country (so named for its tough desert grass). The Australians are astounded by the Americans' ability to set up ice-cream plants in the desert, to work like madmen for oil in a country that probably lacks it and, anyway, needs water more. The Americans, in turn, are baffled by the Australians' capacity...