Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thread a way through the evasions and admissions of the State Department's shaky 1,054-page white paper on China, turned out a report that put the best face on the U.S.'s weak and vacillating policy in Asia. Then he turned to an even tougher task. As head of a three-man committee, he set to auditing the entire U.S. Far Eastern policy...
...listener, Kyser's wife, pretty ex-Model Georgia Carroll, once protested that the quiz questions were too easy. (Sample, flubbed last week by a contestant: "What presidential candidate wore a brown derby and used Sidewalks of New York as a campaign song?") Grudgingly, Kyser agreed to try some tougher ones. "It was a mistake," he recalls. "We had the dullest show in the world. The minute you have anything harder than a subject, predicate and question mark, they can't answer them...
...tensions since the war are, in the eyes of the Dean's Office, much greater than before the war. The Dean's Office feels that political groups of which it disapproves will use the Harvard name as a shield. Hence the Dean's Office wants to make it much tougher for groups to be chartered or to put out publications...
Eight-nine percent of the Class of 1949 has already landed jobs, although only about a third of the positions were secured through the Placement Office. A total of 215 firms sought Business School men through the office last year, but placement directors claim that "things look a bit tougher for this year...
...year. The T.U.C. has no authority to make its decisions binding on its members, but it looked as if most of its unions would stick to the agreement. British labor was still learning the hard lesson that Britain's Socialist government could be a good deal tougher than the bosses with whom Ernie Bevin bargained in his trade-union days...