Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eager to gain its first victory in three weeks, the Crimson Rugby Club journeys to Princeton tomorrow to face a reputedly large and tough Tiger team. Princeton drubbed Yale 9 to 0, and is substantially the same squad that also downed the Crimson, 8 to 3, last fall...
...lofty post during the next two years, gentlemanly Christian Herter will need that capacity to be, now and then, tough and hard-and a touch of serendipity may be useful...
...Joiners. All through the week, tough, eager Longyearbyen search crews skied and tramped the rugged ice mountains, looking for the telltale orange parachute, while overhead a dozen U.S. Air Force planes and the helicopters droned steadily in the 22-hour Arctic...
...only tough critics were a few Cuban exiles, some of whom had lost relatives to Castro's firing squads. They mailed so many threats of stoning, bombing and shooting that the State Department and police kept some 200 men on duty guarding Castro right from the time his turbo-prop Britannia touched down at Washington airport two hours late. Castro wheeled dauntlessly through his guards to a wire fence and flung out his arms to the hundreds of cheering Cubans. "He must be crazy," muttered a guard. "I'm getting more cops than Mikoyan," said Castro...
...long while show business was tough indeed. Larry was in Chicago looking for work when he read a Variety ad: Sid Grauman was casting in Hollywood. A wire went out to Grauman: THE WORLD'S GREATEST HARMONICA PLAYER IS AT THE CHICAGO THEATER. The Wire Was signed "Louie Lipstone," the name of the head man at the Chicago Theater. Next morning, mildly conscience-stricken, Adler went around to explain. He walked in on a telephone conversation. "But I didn't send you a wire!" Lipstone was shouting. Then he saw the harmonica player. He covered the mouthpiece...