Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexican army promptly went into concerted action. In Guanajuato State they ambushed Ramirez the Rabbit, killed him and 21 of his men. They decapitated him and' paraded his head on a staff through the villages he had terrorized. In Durango State, Francisco Vasquez, tougher and smarter than the Rabbit, rode into an ambush but escaped alive. He left behind twelve dead and a new machine gun. Three days later troops met Fermin Sandoval in Guanajuato, killed him and three of his men, paraded his head through the nearby villages, to convince incredulous peasants that Sandoval was really dead. None...
...clan under consideration in Let Freedom Ring is named McClure and is made of tougher fibre than most. Grandpappy ''fit the Yankees," who left three sabre slashes in his side. His daughters had been starved out of their birthplace only when nothing remained to eat except the dog. When his daughters and grandchildren finally revolt against wage cuts in the mill, Grandpappy supplies comic relief with his truculent ways and squirrel rifle. And when the best of his brood is finally pinked on the picket line. Grandpappy sings a hillbilly hymn of hate at the big funeral scene...
Serving as a private during the War, he was assigned to latrine duty, acquired a lasting distaste for the Army. Demobilized, he sold newspaper advertising, drifted into publishing, which he calls ''a gamble . . . tougher than any poker game I ever sat in and I have played in some tough ones, too." He established the American in Panama City in 1925, likes to boast that it is the only newspaper with a faro and roulette outfit among its assets...
...Freddy Moseley, the two injured men who, to the great relief of the coaches, appeared on the field in uniform and were able to run through a light workout. The medical staff had at first feared that Watt was out for a week at least, but apparently Bill is tougher than they figured, for a second examination showed that he was quite ready to continue in service if all due precautions were taken...
This was enough for that tough Greek Republican General Charilaos Panayotakos, commander of the Athens Army Corps. He knew that even tougher War Minister General George Kondylis would soon be after him. In the last election fierce, waxed-mustached General Kondylis had 34 of his henchmen elected Deputies on the straight Republican ticket, then abruptly informed them that henceforth they were to be ardent Royalists hot to restore Georgios II. Moving fast last week Republican General Panayotakos surrounded Athens with troops he thought he could trust, burst into a Cabinet meeting. Instantly the Royalist War Minister ordered him arrested...