Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lameduck Premier Edgar Faure reminded everyone of a half-forgotten provision in the 1951 electoral laws, banning local alliances which are not approved by a party's national leadership. And the national leadership was firm. Said Socialist Boss Guy Mollet, a mild-mannered but tough-minded ex-professor of English: "One doesn't throw oneself into the arms of those who for years have tried to strangle us and have killed our Socialist brothers in the prisons of enslaved Europe." Leaders of the Socialist unions (Force Ouvriere) backed Mollet: "For us to ally with Communists would deliver...
...more militant days, when he was a social worker and M.P. for London's tough Limehouse district, Attlee had said that if he ever went to the House of Lords, it would be as "Lord Luv-a-Duk of Limehouse." Now he chose simple "Earl Attlee" as his title, without any geography...
Mild-Mannered Dutchman. Among his tough-talking contemporaries, Honus was a quiet competitor. But men who tried to take advantage of him learned a hard lesson. In a game against the high-riding Baltimore Orioles, famed as the roughest of them all, Honus was done out of a triple when the first baseman hit him with his hip, the shortstop forced him to circle wide around second and John McGraw on third had time to tag him in the teeth with the ball. "Are you going to take that?" snarled Honus' manager, Fred Clarke. Honus bided his time...
...come a long way," he admitted himself, "a lot further than people believe. The hard part was to keep faith in myself when everybody else was knocking me. Just my faith in God, my wife and my own self have kept me going." At the end of the long, tough training grind, Sugar seemed to have recovered some of his old confidence. On his last day in training camp, he nodded toward two of his sparring partners-aggressive, Olson-type plodders-and asked his managers, "We won't be needing these gorillas any more, will we?" "No," said...
...Crimson should be a solid favorite to win, as its Big Three of Ben Heckscher, Captain Pete Milton, and Cal Place has shown well in tough competition with Navy. The lower-ranked men have also shown good depth in their past two wins over Navy and Wesleyan...