Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tough road. Good instruction. Interesting material, fine facilities, and the anticipation of a thorough familiarity with the engineering sciences do not make the program any lighter or give the concentrator a chance to sample other fields...
...visitors are as tough an initial test as the schedule-makers could pick. It is doubtful whether the lacrossemen will meet another league opponent of the same calibre until they tangle with Yale late in May. If they are able to take this one, Harvard will be in a challenging position in the scramble for the Briggs trophy...
...Durochers' home in West Springfield, Mass, was just a few blocks from the roundhouse where Leo's railroading father worked. It was a self-respecting if tough neighborhood. Of French descent, Leo went to St. Louis Roman Catholic Church. But two years as an altar boy did not soften him noticeably. At 17, Leo was the best pool shot in town (though his habit of talking to his opponent while the latter was lining up a shot was not considered ethical), and the brassiest guy on the Wico Electric Co. baseball club...
Dick Powell, Hollywood's prettiest tough guy, is cast as a tinhorn gambler with a heart of pure gold. As junior partner in a plushy gambling house, he is suspected of the murder of a crooked cop (Jim Bannon) and the cop's girl (Nina Foch). Powell can take some comfort from the fact that his partner's wife (Ellen Drew) and the murdered girl's sister (Evelyn Keyes) are both crazy about him. A tired police inspector, well played by hulking Lee J. Cobb, finally unravels the puzzle. But the story is told with such...
Proudery and arrogance dissolved rapidly on Berhala. The prisoners shared the floor with swarms of vicious rats. The diet consisted of rice sweepings, a tough, rubbery green vegetable and tea. For latrines there were two tin buckets. Filth and vitamin deficiency brought on dysentery, influenza, beriberi and several other diseases, mostly untreated. When the guards weren't slapping faces in anger, they were patting bottoms lewdly. Yet some of those same guards would unexpectedly share their food with the children, permit wives to see husbands in defiance of rules, even assist in smuggling provisions and medicines from friendly Asiatics...