Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been assured the right of asylum when the ship reached Communist-dominated Poland. Faced with these arguments, the boarding party retreated. Three hours later it was back., This time the Scotland Yard man not only had a warrant for Eisler's arrest but also a tough cablegram from the U.S. State Department. Its gist: the U.S. might seize the vessel, and kick the Gdynia America Line out of New York if the captain didn't listen to reason...
Andover was the only one of these three that lost. In these tough games the squad battled but failed on the finer points of play-making and team work, while in the contests where it had a clear victory from the start, it has tended to stoop to playing the opponent's type of game...
...heart was clearly not in his work. With new contract negotiations coming up within a week, he would have preferred to save the strike weapon to push through the union's 1949 demands for wage increases, pensions, and a health program. His hand had been forced by the tough, Communist-led faction in U.A.W.'s huge, 59,000-member Rouge Local 600, which had snowballed the speed-up into a major issue of union politics...
What makes Charles Dickens such a tough cadaver for the dissector is the fact that he embodied (in the words of his friend Leigh Hunt) "the life and soul ... of 50 human beings." Some of these 50 beings were pretty sleazy characters, and they have been sternly ignored by those whom Pearson calls "Dickolators." Most biographers have refused to admit that their idol often fell short of the ideal Dickens expressed: a "glowing, hearty, generous, mirthful, beaming [attitude] to Home and Fireside...
Playing the first half of its game at Springfield in clouds of dust stirred up at every step, and the last half in a semitropical Connecticut rainstorm, the lacrosse team fought its way through the elements and a tough Springfield squad to win, 7 to 6, Saturday...