Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line, averaging eight pounds less than the Crimson's similarly utilizes the teamwork gained in previous seasons, and to date has been irreproachably limiting its opponents to 512 yards on the ground. This is 145 yards better than the Crimson forwards, considered an extremely tough defensive unit in its own right...
...grade housing, preparing the way for private redevelopment of desirable property. Such projects would inevitably permanently displace from the city a large number of its residents, and such a move might well provide political impetus for a move to abandon Plan E. Cities with Plan E charters have fought tough battles to retain them against both local and state legislatures in combination, and some, without permanent civic associations, have returned to the more traditional forms...
...down" periods usually mean a hostile politician in the Mayor's chair, a politician who makes the going tough for the University, and then capitalizes on the natural jealousy of his constitutents for the rich college...
Jutting out of the clutter of Hamburg's docks is a giant rooftop sign that pinpoints the location of the big, busy Schliekerwerft. The yard is named after its owner, tough Willy Schlieker, who operates a worldwide complex of 15 shipyards, steel mills and trading companies with a yearly gross of $150 million. At 45, Moneymaker Schlieker is the youngest of postwar Germany's Wirtschaftswunder-knaben (economic wonderboys...
With the return of Jake Crouthamel and captain Bill Gundy to full time duty and with its usual fanatically tough line up front, Dartmouth was clearly the superior team. With the added advantage of having the heavy 25-mile-per-hour wind at their backs for three quarters of the game, Dartmouth handily managed to put over a second period touchdown and a fourth period field goal...