Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Muslim jurists contend that stoning is no more typical of Islamic justice than extra-tough state laws against the possession of drugs are representative of the American legal tradition. Beyond that, the threat of the Shari'a is usually more severe than the reality. As in Western common law, defendants are presumed innocent until proved guilty...
What do you do if you hunger year after year for the championship of football's tough Big Eight conference, which includes perennial powerhouses like Oklahoma and Nebraska? For the Flatirons, the University of Colorado's well-heeled booster club, the answer was to call a power play: go after a pro football coach. And not just any coach, but Chuck Fairbanks, 45, who in three seasons had turned the New England Patriots from the bumblers of the N.F.L. into a play-off team...
...funny thing happened on her way to the office. Every Chicagoan knew she was going to win. But nobody suspected the size of the majority that tough Democrat Jane Byrne, 44, was going to roll up over a weak Republican to become the Second City's first lady. When the votes were counted, Byrne had 82.1% of the vote-the biggest landslide in Chicago history. The political heirs of the late Richard J. Daley were impressed. "A gracious woman . . . a young woman ... a girl," stammered Cook County Democratic Leader George Dunne, searching for a handle. Sun-Times Columnist Mike...
Come rain or shine, the Harvard men take their 1-0 record into a meet with tough archrival Northeastern. Tuesday at 3 p.m. in the Stadium...
...race, Radcliffe connected for the double victory, as the women took a four-second win over Princeton. J. V. cox Meg Ziegler credited the Tigers for hanging on, saying. "They were tough, but we didn't die. We rowed through them on the settle...