Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dartmouth will also have the advantage of the home court. "The stands in Hanover are very close to the court. They've got rabid rooters up there, and that makes it tough for any visiting squad," Wilson said. It seems those Dartmouth boys have got to keep active somehow...
...Marriage of Figaro, Rossini's Cinderella, Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges, Berg's Wozzeck-it is hard to beat. But it has had trouble keeping its conductor-managers. The man who runs the City Opera, like any opera manager, must be diplomatic, versatile and tough; he must convince the public that his programs are worthwhile, his singers that they are getting parts worthy of their talents, his board of directors that he knows what he is doing. At the City Opera, he has had to do all this on a starvation budget...
...sudden, guild spokesmen started talking tough, made noises as if they would fight back in the courts. International Boxing Club President James D. Norris wondered out loud just how he would promote more fights in New York without the guild to do business with. But onetime Assistant District Attorney Helfand is too good a lawyer to make a move that the courts are likely to overrule. The odds are that the Managers' Guild is dead. If its members want to stick with boxing, they will have to mend their ways and operate on their own. But, said one guildsman...
First reason for the vigorous intellectual leadership of the weekly Christian Century (circ. 38,500) is tough-minded, liberal Editor Charles Clayton Morrison, 81, who bought it in 1908 (when it had 600 readers) and made it into the trumpet voice of nondenominational Protestantism. Eight years ago Editor Morrison retired, leaving the magazine in the hands of his longtime managing editor, Paul Hutchinson. Editor Hutchinson is the second reason for the Century's success...
...said Hagerty. "How many do you answer? The system never worked before, and I don't see why it ever would." Said Francis ("Stevie") Stephenson of the New York Daily News: "Under that system a President can answer just what he feels like and ignore the tough questions...