Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winter of 1952 an exploratory expedition tackled Manaslu, but the Japanese had a tough time even reaching the base of the mountain, because the Indians were reluctant to let foreigners get close to sensitive Tibet and its Red Chinese visitors. By spring, though, the advance guard had chosen the north col near the Sherpa village of Sama as the only possible route, and the first climbers started upward. Monsoons slowed them and they finally quit, their supplies exhausted. In the spring of 1954 the Japanese returned. They had doubled their supplies but this time their opposition was tougher. Outside Sama...
...Tough writers are seldom tough guys, but Alexander Fadeyev was an exception. His early novels are Russian-style westerns, full of galloping hooves and gun battles against terrible odds, simple taciturn heroes who figure that the only way to give an order is to snap yes or no. Fadeyev himself lived this kind of life as a Soviet guerrilla during the civil war, and he believed that if it was not yes it must be no. Later, when it became his job to ride herd on Soviet literature for Dictator Stalin, tough Fadeyev made many an author bite the Siberian...
...knew what I thought about pitching," says Roberts now, "they'd think I was nuts. They make it so complicated. They're always saying I studied control from the time I was a little kid. That's silly. It's just that it's tough to play catch when nobody's around. I threw to that mattress for fun. I never thought about control at all. It just never entered my mind that the purpose of pitching wasn't to get the ball over the plate...
...there must be more, or everybody would bat .400 and win 20 games a year." But Robin Roberts insists that it is all much simpler than that: "I've been given credit for stuff I don't do. I don't even divide people into the tough and easy. It's never the same. With Willie Mays, for example, I don't put on anything special. I just try to mix up the pitches on him. I can't pinpoint what I pitch. I pitch the same to everybody-low and away, or high...
Everywhere, small uranium outfits, even those with producing mines, were going out of business or struggling to stay alive. The troubles were symptomatic of the change coming over the U.S. uranium industry. Instead of a headlong scramble for a quick million, uranium has grown into a tough, mature business where the survivors are those big enough to find and mine enough high-cost ore to come out ahead...