Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What of Non-Cutter Vaccine? Weighing the evidence, the Public Health Service faced a tough decision. Paralytic cases seemed to follow the Cutter vaccine: to Idaho, Washington state and even to Denver. At the same time, there were thousands of children who had got Cutter vaccine without developing polio. But the PHS took the only course it could for safety's sake: it forbade further use of Cutter vaccine anywhere until the life-and-death question was answered. Federal virologists were painstakingly checking the Cutter Laboratories. Said Vaccine-Maker Robert Cutter: "We don't believe that they...
...sake of conquest. The twelve humble Franciscans (later nicknamed "The Twelve Apostles") who followed the conquistadors' reign of terror were more successful missionaries. At the sight of the ragged friars padding doggedly through the mountains, the Indians sighed, "Motolinia, motolinia [Poor, poor fellows]." Generations of such brave, tough motolinias from Spain finally converted Mexico.* But on the Indians' simple faith, the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico grew fat and feckless. Prelates exacted tremendous fees, gobbled up land and abused their ecclesiastical powers, e.g., one archbishop excommunicated a group of pulque brewers for adulterating their product. Republican thought...
...Violin Concerto unplayable, he shrugged and looked around until he found himself a fiddler who could play it. Last week in Princeton, N.J., Sessions' long (75 minutes) one-act opera, The Trial of Lucullus, got its first hearing in the East. The score was, as usual, pretty tough going, but at least nobody booed...
...automobile manufacturers were doing just as well. General Motors reported that it earned $309,406,862 in the first quarter, a 64.7% increase over last year. But the independent automakers were still having a tough time. Stude-baker-Packard has not yet announced its earnings for the quarter, but did report that only in March, the last month in the quarter, it had managed to operate in the black. Kaiser Motors, however, an almost chronically profitless independent automaker, earned $1,207,113 during 1955's first quarter, v. a loss of $7,509,340 in the same period...
...long jeep ride into combat, full of zeal and professional hopes ("Promotions do not come to young lieutenants promenading on the Champs Elysées"). He soon learns that he is the New Boy at the Old School; his fellow officers reminisce about when the war was really tough; his hard-bitten platoon promptly dubs him "Battling Baby-Face...