Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ralph." Next came the tough celestial navigation tests, a dog-legged, 891-mile course from Butte to the Hoover Dam. Only the stars could be used to fix position. At least five minutes ahead of time, the observer was required to announce his estimated time of arrival at Hoover Dam. Joe Holguin's E.T.A. was 10:57:54. When the 54th second of the 57th minute ticked past, the City of Merced was two miles from Hoover...
...impassioned colons, however, Gilbert Grandval was to blame. Grandval had bargained with the Moroccans, the Moroccans committed the murders. Therefore, Grandval was an accomplice, ran the colon argument. Their passions burst forth one day last week at an elaborate military funeral held in Rabat. The funeral was for tough-minded French General Raymond Duval. whose light plane crashed in the Atlas foothills during the operations against the Berbers. Because Duval had opposed Grandval's policies, the fantastic rumor spread that the Resident had sabotaged the general's plane...
...routine, in fact, that parents knew exactly how to cram their children for them. Convinced that kindergarten is harmful for children who are not ready ("Their attention span is much too short. They cry and wet their pants"), Smith and his seven-member school board decided to get tough...
...blunt Henry Wriston said, "an admirable appointment." A tough-minded scholar with often unattainably high standards, Barney Keeney has long seemed marked for success. At the University of North Carolina he was a star trackman and the top student in his class. After taking his Ph.D. at Harvard, he joined the faculty, was one of the most promising young men in the history department. Then, the day after Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the Army, and because of his fluency in French and German, was eventually assigned to combat intelligence. To those who had known him before, it came...
...aristocracy is withering, while the middle class and even the peasantry are elbowing their way into the mirrored halls. The book's hero is a harddriving, shrewd peasant who grows rich, to the dismay of the seedy local gentry. The story is chiefly concerned with the battle between tough, energetic Mastro-don Gesualdo and that gentry-with the rich ones who connive to block his designs on their dwindling lands, with the impoverished ones who sneer at his peasant origins while scheming to trap him into marriage with their daughters. The dialogue may be racy in Italian...