Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Juvenile delinquency is not only a problem of New York but a problem of the whole nation. In Western Europe, law is not laughed at and toyed with as it is in the U.S. It is tough and means what it says...
...Unveiling. Inaugurator and chief manipulator of Afghanistan's profitable "positive neutrality" is tough, bald Prime Minister Mohammed Daoud, 50. Cousin to Afghanistan's figurehead King Mohammed Zahir Shah, Daoud took over as Prime Minister six years ago, deals with everything from high policy to trivial administrative details. Hard-working and ironfisted, he is quick to jail even his own Cabinet ministers if they step out of line...
Within an hour after the monk's bullets found their mark, Ceylon's tough, puckish Governor General Sir Oliver Goonetilleke proclaimed what amounted to a state of emergency over Ceylon-a volatile land that boasts the highest homicide rate in Asia. But next day, as Banda's like-minded colleague, Education Minister Wijayananda Dahanayake, took over the premiership, a strange quiet settled over the country. Taxis, buses and cars flew mourning flags of white; the only hint of violence lay in a rising wave of public feeling against the Buddhist clergy. In Colombo a two-mile-long...
...biggest Hollywood business about the Dodgers was the comeback of veterans who had not starred since the glory days in Brooklyn. First Baseman Gil Hodges, 35, was again tough in the clutch (79 runs-batted-in), despite a taped ankle and forearm. Although he often rode the bench when southpaws began to throw. Outfielder Duke Snider, 33, had once again found his home-run bat (23). The Dodgers were even getting mileage out of gimpy Carl Furillo, 37, who explained: "I look at the ball, and I see dollar signs instead of stitches...
...parts, but he had to get cost estimates for each one from hundreds of suppliers -without springing the secret. His sales strategy was to outflank corporate channels, sell the small car directly to G.M.'s hard-reigning president, Harlow Curtice. But sharp, inquiring "Red" Curtice was a tough man to sell. To do it, Cole would have to present him with a prototype car and an argument virtually without flaw-at a carefully selected time when the market was just beginning to ripen. Cole well knew that Curtice could ask him hundreds of questions...