Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...substantial support. Continued lethargy at City Hall could ruin its chances. The responsibility right now is City Manager Curry's--it is up to him to appoint a man to get the program under way. While he should take sufficient time to find the right man for a tough job, it seems that if the Urban Renewal is to amount to anything, the time is about...
...leading devotee of the death-instinct theory (TIME, Dec. 12), spoke of the self-destructive urges which, in his view, make men accident-prone, absence-prone, and likely to court trouble with the boss. The practical businessmen around the table found the idea of a death instinct a tough nut. Some of them also boggled over the immense importance attached by the experts to the preschool years in character formation. In general, however, they lapped up most of the theory, and brought up case histories to match against it. Samples...
...experiment: The Jazz Singer (produced by Zanuck), which starred Al Jolson and ended silent films with a spoken line ("You ain't heard nothing yet, folks!"). Always keen to sense a popular trend, Zanuck took advantage of the movies' gangster cycle by featuring such early hair-triggered tough guys as Edward G. (Little Caesar) Robinson...
...Woman Lobby. Since she first took over her post, state support for education, once only 11% has zoomed to 50%. She has lobbied successfully for the redistricting of school districts, dual certification of teachers (so they can teach in either elementary or secondary schools), has set up as tough a teacher-training program as any in the country...
...Niles-Bement-Pond (TIME, July 25). One of the top makers of diesel locomotives, generators and pumps, Fairbanks, Morse earned $2,478,198 in 1954 on sales of $108 million. But after Silberstein started moving in three weeks ago. Wall Streeters predicted that he would have a tough time overcoming the 30% stock control of the Morse family and management...