Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LIBERALISM, by Theodore J. Lowi. Much liberal policy but little liberalizing practice has characterized the U.S. Government for more than 30 years, says this University of Chicago professor, who argues for a dumping of pragmatism and political pluralism in favor of tough, well-planned and well-enforced Government standards...
...splendid serenity of Camp David on Sept. 27, Nixon allowed the partisan and the tough infighter to reappear. Meeting with Republican legislative and party leaders, he declared that he did not intend to be the first American President to lose a war (see story page 17). He railed against those who would "bug out." He talked of the crucial nature of the next "couple of months." That meeting placed Nixon shoulder to shoulder with L.B.J. in an unwinnable fight against those whom Johnson once described as "nervous Nellies." Nixon's presidency may never be the same again...
...rivalry between the Nazis and Socialists spilled over into bloody street battles that erupted all over Germany. In the Baltic seaport of Liibeck, the Nazis met a tough opponent in a husky, square-jawed youth named Herbert Karl Frahm, a member of the Socialist youth club. The son of an unmarried shopgirl whose lover had deserted her before the child's birth, Herbert Karl and his mother lived as boarders in the home of a chauffeur whose own wife had little patience with the child. Perhaps to compensate for his unhappy circumstances, the boy excelled at school, winning a scholarship...
...hours of tough cross-examination today showed that the defense was indeed delighted with Robert Pierson, an undercover agent for the Chicago Police Department who claims he was Jerry Rubin's bodyguard during the 1968 Democratic National Convention...
Dartmouth will have a tough game this weekend when it hosts Penn. But if the Indians win convincingly enough, they may take over the number one spot...