Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commissioner was frozen, all right -but with pure anger. Barked Tough Cop Kennedy, who brooks no doubt about his responsibility and authority: "If the police are unionized, I advise the people not to waste their money paying the police commissioner a salary. Hoffa would be the police commissioner, so why waste the money?" Said the hard-boiled Daily News: "Public opinion will approve overwhelmingly any steps-repeat any steps-Commissioner Kennedy may take to crush this attempt." At City Hall, Mayor Robert Wagner found his voice, pounded his desk, called Feinstein's announcement "dastardly" and a "disgrace," promised...
...hope of 1959 that 1958's limited success in cold-war foreign policy bred a tough U.S. restraint and a will to live with the battle in all its forms. It was the hope of the policy of decades that 1959 began with a general dissatisfaction with the broad aims and goals of U.S. policy as thus defined, a general determination to do something about them...
...specific skills and techniques, veterans have a certain sense of confidence for having worked at their generation's job, learned some of its toughest lessons as youngsters. Hollywood Writer-Director Richard (The Blackboard Jungle) Brooks, 46, a Marine rifleman in the Marianas campaign, tries to sum up one tough-minded discovery. "Before...
...tough 1959 budget that will halve the deficit by hiking taxes and cutting "social expenditures" (price supports, veterans' pensions, etc.). His drastic action should bring some order to France's tangled finances, at the same time provide funds for massive public investment in both France and Algeria. He promised nothing but a time of trials, but added that "without the effort to restore order," France would be a nation "perpetually oscillating between drama and mediocrity." De Gaulle, who dislikes economics so much, had this time shown himself willing to take it seriously...
...friendly reporter, tough, cigar-smoking Bishop Dibelius, 78, pointed Up the gravity of the situation by citing one East German town of 20,000 in which only three of the 200 eligible children were confirmed-all the others participated in Youth Dedication ceremonies. "Obviously," said Dibelius, "the church is not simply going to write off these young people...