Word: toughest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thoughts and words were made known in quiet talks with unnerved Congressmen, in one of his toughest-talk press conferences (see below), in a strategically timed call on Congress to provide more foreign aid to U.S. allies, and finally, in a speech drafted for nationwide telecast a few days before the arrival this week of Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Another top contender is senior Jim Stanley, who will swim the 100 and 200-yard breast stroke races. Stanley's toughest competition will come from his archrival from Yale, Joe Koletsky. Last year in the Easterns, Stanley and Koletsky had a dog-fight for both the 100 and 200-yard honors...
...dazzle, hypnotize, even defraud them by sheer audacity. That is the text of British Novelist Peter Vansittart's latest novel (his first to be published in the U.S. was The Game and The Ground-TIME, May 6, 1957). Orders of Chivalry is witty, satirical, and one of the toughest, most trenchant novels to come out of Britain in recent years. Author Vansittart (38-year-old distant cousin of Britain's late Diplomat Lord Robert Vansittart) shows a boldly romantic streak in admiration for such old-fashioned virtues as duty, discipline, honor and obedience...
...raises hob with giveaway shows, the pornographic-picture trade along Times Square, the shallow mind of little Miss Average whose only coup in life is the landing of a husband. But he is a failure at suggesting what he wants, and Author Grossman also dodges the novelist's toughest question: How did he get that...
...varsity swimming team will face its toughest match of the season, excluding the Yale meet, against Dartmouth tonight in the I.A.B. starting at 8:30. The Freshman contest with the Lion Freshmen begins...