Word: toughened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anything; they had simply turned aside what would have been a humiliating defeat. The Taft-Hartley Act still stood, untouched, on the books. While the fight shifted to the Senate, the House Labor Committee would try to figure a way out of the Administration's dilemma: how to toughen up the old Wagner Act enough to win back Southern support, without making it so tough that Northern Democrats would rebel...
Margy began going with Frankie Malone knowing he wasn't much. "But he was better than nobody. He would have served until a real boy friend came along." Frankie was the son of a policeman who tried to toughen him up by making him go out and fight with the boys. He grew up with an abiding fear of being a sissy, sensitive, selfconscious, a good dancer, a hard worker, ashamed of his family and relentlessly honest with himself. He met Margy at a soda fountain where they both lingered because neither of them wanted to go home...
Then they are collected by their trainer, who runs them up & down to get them into fighting trim, tosses them in the air and catches them to toughen up their bodies. They are fed special diets, which chicken men usually try to keep secret from each other. John Kehoe feeds his cocks such highfalutin food as cakes with French brandy, oysters, apples, sprouted oats, plain oats, eggs and flint corn. On the third day of the Orlando tournament last week (the fights go on for six hours a day and cost $7 to see), Kehoe's grey muffs lost...
...Jinnah denounced the "fratricidal war." But most observers wondered how Jinnah could fail to know what would happen when he called for "direct action." Shortly before the riots broke out, his own news agency (Orient Press) reported that Jinnah, anticipating violence, was sleeping on the floor these nights-to toughen up for a possible sojourn in jail...
...exorcise these evils, Dow Chemical Co. offers dinitro-ortho-secondarybutyl-phenol, which it calls Dowspray 66 Improved. Sprayed on the vines, it shrivels them to chaff. Potatoes, synthetically frosted, stop growing, toughen their skins. Diggers shuck them out of the ground unclogged by greenery...