In one of the toughest trades in the world of affairs--that of the foreign correspondent--initial dependence upon one's professional colleagues is the only certain stepping stone to success.
Skin like tissue paper, mouth like silk, but kill the toughest broncho ever foaled--look at them lungs an' nostrils.
I'd rather get the toughest pummellin' such as them could give, than keep my mouth shut while they was slurrin' their betters!
The one who pulls the shortest twig starts without delay or grumblin', an' I'm free to tell you that those who stay behind with me are like to have the toughest night's work they ever put in.
My fellow Americans, we can cut the deficit, create jobs, promote democracy around the world, pass welfare reform and health care, pass the toughest crime bill in history and still leave too many of our people behind.
We agree on time limits, tough work requirements, and the toughest possible child support enforcement.
Here tonight is one of those community policemen, a brave, young detective, Kevin Jett, whose beat is eight square blocks in one of the toughest neighborhoods in New York.
Next month I will send you one of the toughestbudgets ever presented to Congress.
I have, and of the best and toughest iron ever smelted in the south.
The regiment received intense mortar and artillery fire coming in and on the beaches, and faced the toughest terrain--steep cliffs whose approaches were laced with interlocking bands of Japanese machine gun fire.
After the Japanese position was finally overrun with tanks, Lieutenant Colonel Carey Randall, commanding 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, said that these defenses were the toughest he had faced on Guam.
Even the toughest of British troops--and these were among the toughest toughs in the army--would feel the worse for wear after such an experience.
The men looked at one another, and did not like it, for a badly handled oar would have cast them on the rocks, which are villainously hard and jagged, and would stave in the toughest boat, like biscuit china.
Gristhorp, being a prudent man, brought the very toughest parts of his larder forth, with his wife giving nudge to his elbow.
The magistrates will have wooden heads of course, and they will be made of the toughest and thickest materials that can possibly be obtained.
He has come, I suppose, to see how the new Captain is getting on with the toughest bunch of fellows in the prison.
If we're the toughest bunch in this stir the other guys must be skypilots, all right!
I was never more surprised; but in order to turn the joke on them I assume the toughest manner at my disposal and say, "Gee!
If I had the ordinary theories about prisons and prisoners it might seem rather mortifying that, in spite of every effort, not one of these intimate friends can spot me among the toughest bunch of fellows in the prison.
But, although they may form the toughestbunch in prison, they evidently have their better side also, and is that not just as real as the worse side?
They're the toughest bunch of fellows in the Prison.
It was in the latest headquarters to which Craig had chased the criminal, in one of the toughest parts of the old Greenwich village, on the west side of New York, not far from the river front.
Following the directions that Michael had given over the telephone Craig led me into one of the toughest parts of the lower West Side.
So reverend and thoughtful is the old grey-muzzled town that it is hard to recognise the bristling war-dog that bestrode the toughest centuries, snarled in the face of Fate, and pulled down Time.
Franz," the absent one, was Ano's brother, and the toughest boy in the community.
Boys," he said, "I was one of de toughest gazabos what ever hung aroun' de square.
Trust the skin; it is one of the most important and toughest organs in the body, if only given half a chance.
The steepness of the route soon kills draught- horses and ruins the toughest mules.
He didn’t like the idea of giving thistoughest assignment to one of his best friends, but he had to put a good man in command of the dam detail, and Dick Donnelly was the best.
Taking up enough room for almost two men in the rear seat was Private Vincent Salamone, the home-run king of baseball in peacetime, the toughest paratrooper of them all in war.
Then there’s Beefy—dear old Beefy—the king of the ballet, the god of the bar, yet the toughest devil who ever came out of Cambridge.
War is not our business as a nation, but in war we, I think, are one of the toughest and bravest peoples on earth.
And I did it while sitting on the toughest Rock in the system.
The harder this latter shoots the better; and if he can carry sixteen cartridges in the magazine, it will not be too many, for they are about the toughest beasts to kill on the face of the earth, barring none.
I know that the grizzly is the toughest animal in existence, barring none, and that many hunters who have shot big game in other parts of the world give him the palm, when it comes to being difficult to down.
In less than a month he had 3,000 of the toughest soldiers you ever saw with him.
He's gathered a crew of thirty of the toughest characters on the waterfront and promised them all a good slice of the bullion if he gets it.
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