Word: toughest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toughest of all were the backwoods villages, where farmers suspected a gringo plot to poison their animals, and priests preached against interference with God's will. There the Apostles used any methods they could think of, giving more movie shows, bringing friends of local farmers from other villages to argue for them. In the village of Tula, Jalisco, when all else failed, the Apostles hauled in a load of pulque and set up free drinks. Next morning the villagers awoke with roaring hangovers, found that all their cattle had been vaccinated...
...entire squad is well ahead of last year's skaters at this stage of the training period, says Chase, but this good omen is virtually discounted by the fact that the team will probably be playing its toughest schedule in history...
Last week TV, the cub reporter who had cut such a figure at the Philadelphia conventions, plunged jauntily into a bigger-and what looked like an easier- assignment. Ten to 15 hours later, haggard and unshaven, he staggered away from one of the biggest and toughest political stories of a generation. The cub did a so-so job for a beginner, but nothing like the whiz-bang Philadelphia performance. The chief reason: the. conventions were shows that a TV camera could get its eye on, but an election, even an eye-opener like, this one, offered nothing much to look...
Although Navy has not had a particularly impressive record this fall, Munro fools that today's game will be "the toughest one" on the schedule. In League competition the sailors have one win, one loss, and a tie to their credit, with the tie coming against Cornell...
...three of his earlier novels, Cozzens presented the hodgepodge of the medical profession (The Last Adam), the ministry (Men and Brethren), the law (The Just and the Unjust). In Guard of Honor he not only shows again his fine descriptive talents but boldly tangles with two of the toughest subjects of the day-the nature of war, and racial intolerance. Guard of Honor is a big, fat book-much bigger than Sinclair Lewis' Kingsblood Royal or Laura Hobson's Gentleman's Agreement-bigger, and far better...