Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find. In the years when Humphrey was building a reputation as a crack executive, a friend of labor, a staunch anti-Communist liberal, Joe Ball had seemed perversely determined to undercut his own earlier supporters. He had lost whatever labor backing he had once had by heading the get-tough-with-labor wing in the Taft-Hartley debates. He had baffled the farmers by plying them with abstruse economic theories. He had alienated many a Republican regular by jumping party lines to vote for Franklin Roosevelt...
...themselves, and they will do the same thing for Yale and Army. In the meantime, they will be psychologically "down" for games like Dartmouth. Princeton, Brown, Holy Cross. And Cornell, How low they sink in comparison to Cornell's rise (it is fresh from a win over tough Navy) will decide the game. For the Crimson is able to win: if it doesn't, morale will be the cause...
Creatures of Decay. Faulkner's view of the South has no trace of magnolia-and-old-plantation romanticism; it is tough and realistic, even if sometimes debatable. From novel to novel, weaving backward and forward in patterns of time as intricate as his twining sentences, Faulkner has developed his picture of a society devastated by war-a society that was both honorable and doomed by an inherent guilt. In his view the South was right in insisting on its sovereignty but cursed by the shame of slavery. It had to fight and was doomed to lose...
...what newsmen and the joyful crowd Saturday have already set down as certainty, this squad will have to do what Valpey has preached all along: play just one game a week. The next seven games are as tough as the first, and several are tougher. The team has to do as much every week from here in as it has done for this one game...
...search for a college teaching job has become much too tough for the brand new Ph.D., the Teachers Union reported yesterday...