Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Marshall's present task looked at least as tough as the one he had faced last winter...
Coach Stahl said last night that he rates the Boston U. club a tough outfit to beat, but the Crimson diamond men may, with the breaks among their way, be able to down the vaunted Terriers...
...about fixing me up with a table and I don't want one in the Polar Region." (Editor's note: behind a pole.) If he says no, make it a50, as I happen to know the poor guy . . . has a tough struggle buying a home on Park Avenue...
Just Supposing. Robert Glass, son of Virginia's Senator Carter Glass and editor of the Lynchburg News, tossed them a tough one: would any Russian newsman have the right to write an article demanding Stalin's removal? Ehrenburg coolly sidestepped, punctuating his reply with quick gestures of his small hands: "Categorically no! I must say that different peoples must understand the psychology of other people. . . . Sometimes people are uncertain...
...banquet halls and smoke-filled rooms in Washington and Manhattan, U.S. publishers, editors and newsmen grappled last week with the postwar problems of the press. One was a tough nut that no amount of shoptalk seemed to crack: how to achieve the worldwide free trade in information that would help men know and understand each other? The matter was urgent: the headlines told of censorship trouble in Iran one day, news suppression in Bulgaria the next...