Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Warren Berg's winless (and undefeated) Freshmen baseball nine had a tough time staying that way yesterday afternoon, but with a two-run ninth inning it succeeded in registering its third straight tie, an 8 to 8 deadlock at Milton Academy...
Well over 100 people gathered in Kirkland Junior Common Room last night heard speakers at the tenth career conference turn over the possibilities of "government" as a profession, and finally decide that like almost all the other careers discussed in the current series, it is a tough nut to crack...
...Roberts lives in Kansas on account of Old Tom Pendergast. The boss's assessors, by upping tax valuations, had made it tough on the Star's wealthy executives to own property on the Missouri side...
Batista was coming back. The tough ex-sergeant who bossed Cuba through eleven years of "disciplined democracy" will run for Senator in the June 1 general elections. In Havana last week, the news caused hardly a ripple...
Parasites & Prosecutors. For Billie, the reformatory experience seemed the culmination of a tough-luck life. When she was born in Baltimore 33 years ago, her mother was 13, her father 15, and they didn't bother to get married until Billie was three. She began to work at six, scrubbing steps before school and minding babies after, was only 14 ("big for my age, had big breasts, big bones") when she got her first singing job in a Harlem joint at $2 a night. Her first record (Tapping the Barrel) was made with a green young band leader named...