Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tough old Chancellor firmly rejected any notion that he might buy unification by neutralizing the German state. Said he: "Such a bargain is absolutely impossible, both for us, the Germans, and for Europe...
When to Shift. When the British occupied Lower Saxony, Schlüter presented himself as a victim who had suffered for his trace of Jewish blood, got a job as a high-ranking police officer in the Göttingen Allied Military Government. He proved a tough cop, efficient at rounding up local Nazis, but just as rough on others, too. But when his administration was involved in accusations of bribery, embezzlement and maltreatment, the British fired...
...most truckers held firm, while Beck's tough lieutenant Frank Brewster and a truckers' delegation hammered out 63 contracts, one by one. Last week they were all signed. The settlement: long-line drivers, who now earn an average $2.14, won 8? an hour more this year, 8? more next year, and 7? in 1957; to an average $2 scale, local drivers added 10? an hour this year,10? next year, 9? in 1957. For pensions the truckers agreed to contribute $8.65 monthly...
...society. He does not want to stick his neck out or get his feelings "mixed up" in things. He knows that strong feelings are as dangerous as disease, having read articles like "Emotion Can Give You a Running Nose." He is a pragmatist, a materialist, a "healthy sceptic," a "tough realist" -and Author Whitman warns-he is "as inadequate to our time as a bow-and-arrow on a 20th century battlefield...
...Sentenced to ten years in prison in a $1,000,000 movie extortion case in 1943, he was paroled after serving 3½ years, retired to his 800 closely guarded acres near Fowler, Ind. to live the life of a gentleman farmer. Many of his old pals, including Anthony ("Tough Tony") Accardo and Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys, turned up at his wake in suburban Berwyn, Ill., to which the elite of the Chicago underworld were invited...