Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tough Effort. There is no corporal punishment at the centers. Failure to conform to the schedule or to meet inspection standards is punished by assignment to extra work details or remission of a rare privilege, e.g., leisure time on Sunday evenings. For serious offenses, e.g., attempted escape, boys are put in solitary-confinement rooms...
...fewer than 237 boys were discharged at Kidlington, but up to the end of 1954, only 74 of them had reappeared in court. Say; Kidlington Warden F. (for Frederick) Vernon Elvy: "We help some boys to find themselves. It is only by experiencing the satisfaction of a tough effort that these boys realize a sense of a job well done; it gives them the sense of achievement they need. I don't say we have the complete answer to the problem, but we are making a real contribution...
...worker missionaries have avoided many of the pitfalls that helped wreck the worker priest movement, e.g., Communist inroads, marriage by some priests. For one thing, the sisters are kept under tight discipline, report frequently to their superior; for another, working mostly with women, they do not face so tough a political opposition. Abbe Roussel, who reports directly to Cardinal Feltin of Paris, looks forward to seeing his secular movement turn eventually into a full-fledged religious order...
...Bitch two afternoons . . . Now is your day. By & By it will be my day." But in 1876, 19 years after the massacre, Lee was tried before an all-Mormon jury and in 1877 was executed by a firing squad. When, before his trial, he had difficulty chewing a tough bit of penitentiary steak, he wrote a few wry lines both to himself and the animal from whom the steak was cut: Old Mormon Bull, how came you here? we have tuged & toiled these many years, we have been cuffed & kicked with sore abuse and now sent here for penetentiary...
...Commissar} reveals that Koestler is still looking for an adjudicator in the long debate in which, as in The Right to Say No, he habitually takes the con. People pro-any-thing get short shrift from Con-Man Koestler. Yet Americans should find themselves stimulated by this tough controversialist. Some examples of Koestler's talent for taking the unpopular side of an argument: ¶ In Judah at the Crossroads, he tries to close his accounts with Zionism with the advice that Jews should either go to Israel or renounce their religion and stop praying, "Next year in Jerusalem...