Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attitude down here. Somehow, he word has gotten around that "Harvard is loaded," and Columbia coach Lou Little will assure you that he spends sleepless nights worrying about such Crimson stars as Gannon, Moffle, Kenary, Drvaric, Houston, Rodis, Fioritino, DiBlasio, and Guthrie, who he feels could make Harvard tougher then Yale and the equal of Rutgers...
Three years after Herself Surprised appeared in England, Cary published a sequel, The Horse's Mouth. The story of Gulley and Sara in their old age, it is a wonderfully comic and roisterous novel, tougher and more brilliant than Herself Surprised. Taken together, the two novels form one of the most impressive pieces of English writing in the past decade...
Mine Own Executioner (20th Century-Fox) is the story of a London lay psychiatrist (Burgess Meredith) who takes on a tougher case than he's sure he ought to handle. Somewhere between neurosis and insanity, a young veteran (Kieron Moore) has tried to strangle his bride. Before the psychiatrist can uncover the root of the trouble, the young man shoots his wife and kills himself...
...take Atherton's place, President Truman last week named Laurence Adolph Steinhardt, 55, who had made a fortune as a Wall Street lawyer before Franklin Roosevelt gave him (1933) his first diplomatic job as minister to Sweden. In the last 15 years, few U.S. envoys have had it tougher than Larry Steinhardt. After three grueling years as ambassador in Moscow (through the Hitler-Stalin pact period and the Nazi invasion of Russia) he had three tense years in Ankara. As ambassador to Prague, he had just returned from leave in the U.S., where he underwent a serious operation, when...
...began as an afternoon paper but actually came out late in the morning with yesterday's news; the new Star will soon frankly be a morning newspaper. Although the city badly needs a good afternoon paper, the Star chooses to buck the tougher competition of the monolithic Daily News and Hearst's Mirror...