Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over a thousand young members of the Resistance in a four-month period as he took his own notes on these underground maquisards. "Much of my work was done in bars at the army's expense," he recalls. There he came in contact with all types of people--the tough and the disabled, intellectuals and workers, Communists and Catholics...
German's overtime goal culminated an overtime in which the Friars had completely dominated play. Flynn had already made four tough saves, and there were only ten seconds to run of Bob Owen's interference penalty, when German took a short pass from Monahan and beat Flynn from the left
...fashioned in the '30s. Since then it has suffered a kind of honorable obsolescence. Sibelius' last major work was published in 1926, when he was 61. Most of today's critics, finding they have nothing new to say about the music, simply muse about those tough, craggy Sibelius characteristics that remind people of Finland...
...Marx parents shifted their little store from neighborhood to neighborhood with scant success, and there were few luxuries for Louis, his elder sister Rose and younger brother Dave. "But I don't remember feeling my life was tough," says Louis. "People in Brooklyn were warm and understanding, and I learned a lot about democracy. The class struggle? Someone sold that idea. We never felt...
...those days, pro football was a catch-as-catch-can collection of part-time players. Men like George Halas took over the tough job of turning the game into a moneymaking proposition. When the A. E. Staley Starch Products Co. of Decatur, Ill. decided to give up their team, Halas, who was the coach, bought the franchise and moved to Chicago. Now Halas was a triple threat: owner, coach and player all at once. Times were so tough he also doubled as trainer, ticket-seller and publicity man. Not until he signed the great Red Grange in 1925, was Halas...