Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even in the rough-and-tumble of Italian politics, tough, indefatigable Amintore Fanfani excelled at infighting. Seven months ago, when the Chamber of Deputies with only seven votes to spare invested him Premier, it seemed that he had at last achieved his ambition. He was a man with three crucial jobs: Premier, Foreign Minister, boss of the Christian Democratic Party. But last week, his triumph reduced to ashes, Amintore Fanfani renounced all his jobs and his dream...
...drama. Soon she was involved with Saint Joan, the role that has almost become her alter ego. For a starter she translated the Shaw play into Gaelic, but her greatest triumph came later on the New York stage in 1956. There, her Joan emerged as a thick-brogued peasant, tough and practical and yet a single-minded fanatic...
...strong upturn in steel was in answer to rising consumption, plus a rush to build inventories as a hedge against a steel strike this summer. The three-year contract with the A.F.L.-C.I.O. United Steelworkers runs out July 1, and the steel union has already done some tough talking about the big pay package-estimated at $1 billion a year in wage increases and benefits-it expects to demand. Most steelmen, along with their customers, expect a strike. The automakers, trying to lay in enough steel for their 1959 models and part of their 1960 production, guaranteed their suppliers against...
...Crimson track team will attempt to regain the winning touch this afternoon against a tough Dartmouth squad at Hanover. In its second dual meet of the season, the varsity will have to overcome injuries to key men as it tries to reverse the trend of recent weeks...
...masters of position squash, and was of such high calibre that even in 1946, when he was past his prime and badly out of practice, he was able to give coach Jack Barnaby, then one of the leading professional players in the country, a very tough match...