Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finally," he concluded, "I do not think that these extremists are being taken too seriously. I do not really believe that even atomic war will do all the damage that they promise, in finishing off so tough an organism...
Saddest cases were the left-wing Socialists, who under Pietro Nenni had joined the Communists on the single Popular Front ticket. Said tough former Socialist Minister Giuseppe Romita, urging a break with Nenni: "The Popular Front absorbed and nullified our party...
Other speakers at the rally were John L. Saltonstall '38, Boston attorney, who characterized Douglas as a "tough-minded progressive," and John R. Everett, professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University, who predicted a Republican victory in November unless Justice Douglas secures the Democratic nomination...
Whether or not the opponents prove to be tough, Haines will have one big factor in his favor. Half of the past two seasons' winning eight is still intact, and yet another of last year's boatmen will be back, thus leaving only three new oarsmen in the first shell. Main question mark is at stroke, where Jack Smith will be making his debut tomorrow. Though he worked for the yearling crew last spring, Smith is new to the stern slide. If he looks at home in his new position tomorrow, most of Haines' worries will be over...
Harvard's equivalent to the man on the street is going through tough ideological days this spring. A University which even in normal days is a pretty politically conscious group has become, in this year of National elections and International crisis, a sounding-board for almost every shade of political opinion from the Free Enterprisers to the Communists...