Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seasonal layoffs were recognized as an especially sore spot in the labor situation of the auto industry. The C.I.O.'s late President Phil Murray got nowhere in 1944 when he bid for the guaranteed annual wage. But Reuther (who succeeded Murray as C.I.O. president) and his tough, 1,523,000-man United Auto Workers made the most determined attempt in the history of U.S. labor...
What shook Vidali was to hear "Beria, Abakumov and others" named as being responsible for a job he had done himself. Tough Vidali, who lost his right thumb in the Spanish Civil War, was a longtime hatchet man for Stalin's secret police. In Mexico in 1940 he had a hand in the organizational work behind the assassination of Leon Trotsky, and, later, in the New York shooting of exiled Italian anti-Communist Carlo Tresca...
...hundred and fifty Swiss were killed in Dienbienphu. A much more suitable alternative, Minister Chaudet advised his landlocked countrymen, is the sea. "The job of a sailor is tough but honorable...
This at once raised two tough questions...
Britain's two living ex-Prime Ministers did their bit to breathe some fire into the electioneering. "Mr. Attlee is certainly tough," taunted Sir Winston Churchill, "or he would not have kept the lead of his party for so long," but since Labor is so divided, "the best he can do is be a piebald." Replied Clem Attlee: "Sir Winston has always been a bit of a chameleon, a funny little animal that changes color. He began as a Conservative, was a Liberal for 18 years, then an Independent and ... a Conservative again. I don't know whether...