Word: toughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Attorney Carla Hills, 54, a former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Ford and a tough negotiator, was named U.S. Trade Representative...
...When one of our players makes an aggressive move, we can't seem to finish the play off," Harvard Coach Peter Roby said. "This win [over Vermont on Saturday,] will prove to them that they can beat a tough opponent on the road. The return of James should help in the same...
...first period, Harvard jumped out to a 5-0 lead and outshot the Big Green, 25-4. The Crimson defense was so tough that Dartmouth did not take a shot from in front...
...alternating soothing words to an audience of pinstripes at the U.N. with tough talk to a pistol-packing, fatigues-clad troublemaker in Havana, Gorbachev is trying to demonstrate that his is a kinder, gentler U.S.S.R. that is now in the business of providing diplomatic solutions to the world's many military problems. However shaky its basis in fact, the Soviet campaign has been working. Gorbachev, says a senior U.S. diplomat at the U.N., "has single-handedly made the Soviet Union internationally respectable...
...from our memories or dreams, or at least the ones in which we picture ourselves, alone in the office, dreaming of cool blonds and stiff whiskeys (or cool whiskey and stiff blonds). Raymond Chandler was ghostwriter to the sound track our lives so often imitate. The figure of the tough-but-tender hero cracking wise to cover up his soft spots; the lethal blond and the flick-knife dialogue on which the movies (and so the rest of us) still feed -- all of them seem to have been copyrighted by the onetime oil executive who only began writing...