Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...receive more generous payments than other blind people get under the Social Security Act, and their income is not reduced if they go back to work. After an average of four months in a rehabilitation center, they go back to their homes to find jobs. The treatment may be tough, but it works. Studies have shown that blinded veterans do statistically better than other sightless Americans in adapting to normal life...
...teacher, Nabokov was provocative, tough, highhanded. At Wellesley, anxious to get off on a June butterfly hunt, he startled the registrar's office by wanting to turn in his grades before the final exam. He already knew, he said, exactly what each of his students was worth. When he did give an exam, it was demanding. Appalled by the constant cheating, he browbeat students to go to the toilet before the papers were passed out and pressed fresh pencils into the hands of examinees rather than let them go to the sharpener...
...however, something more than fodder for the teeny-bopper drive-in trade. For all that is patently naive and even painful to watch, there are occasional scenes, such as a dinner-table argument and a tense ride with some hobos on a fast freight, that have a kind of tough virtue...
...good bet to win at least two games. But gamblers offered Eddie and seven of his teammates several thousand dollars to throw the sport's most vaunted prize. "Black Sox," screamed the fans. "I did it for the wife and kiddies," Eddie pleaded, but baseball's tough new commissioner, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, banned all eight players from baseball for life...
...hearings was largely to amass evidence that colleges would be best left alone to handle campus disorders. Only Rep. William Scherle (R-Iowa) gave a foretaste of the real mood of the House when he told Pusey that unless "college administrators have the guts to adopt a get-tough policy, Congress will have...