Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the Greek Cypriot underground EOKA offered on Christmas Eve to change its terroristic course on Cyprus if the British would "do the same," Britain's tough Major General Kenneth Darling announced, "We will continue to hunt down lawbreakers...
...were allowed to emigrate to Israel. Today's flashes of anti-Semitism stem partly from the prevailing economic discontent, and from resentment of those Jews who became Communists after the Russians took over-the Russians reasoned that Jews were safely anti-Nazi. Now exit was made as tough as possible for everyone who applied...
...paternal tones Kassem urged members of the Iraqi Students Union to stop wasting time on political activities (riots, etc.) and get back to their textbooks. Less paternally, he issued tough new orders to the Popular Resistance Force, the Red-infiltrated militia whose members have been careering through Baghdad making political "arrests." Henceforth, said Kassem, the P.R.F. would function only as a reserve force "under direct military orders," and any of its members who tried to interfere with "the freedom of citizens" would be subject to "the severest punishment." Explaining why his new orders were necessary, Kassem was warily unspecific...
...program to put a man in orbit and bring him back alive, called Project Mercury, is distinct from the tests scheduled for the stub-winged X-15 already built by North American Aviation. Inc. Essentially an extra-tough airplane, the X-15 will climb into nearby space under its own rocket power and glide quickly back to earth under full control. Project Mercury's space capsule will be designed to achieve an around-the-earth orbit, but it will land passively by parachute...
...fixed this stately marital bear garden; no novelist, before or since, ever trod more precisely the thin borderlines that divide the heart from the purse, the ambitions from the conventions, the rigid rules of the game from the fibbing, cheating gambits of the desperate players. The game is tough often to the point of grimness, but it is always comedy, never tragedy. "Let other pens," wrote plain Jane coolly, "dwell on guilt and misery...