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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. " When the going gets tough, the tough get going " is a popular phrase of witticism in American English. The phrase is an example of an antimetabole . The origin of the phrase has been attributed to various sources. It appeared to come from American football parlance, with the earliest published ...
Billy Ocean singles chronology. "The Long and Winding Road". (1985) " When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going ". (1985) "There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)" (1986) " When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going " is a 1985 song co-written and originally recorded by English singer Billy Ocean in 1985.
The New York Times crossword is a daily American-style crossword puzzle published in The New York Times, syndicated to more than 300 other newspapers and journals, and released online on the newspaper's website and mobile apps as part of The New York Times Games.
On 18 August 1942, a day before the Dieppe raid, 'Dieppe' appeared as an answer in The Daily Telegraph crossword (set on 17 August 1942) (clued "French port"), causing a security alarm. The War Office suspected that the crossword had been used to pass intelligence to the enemy and called upon Lord Tweedsmuir, then a senior intelligence officer ...
An American-style crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter ...
Margaret Petherbridge Farrar (March 23, 1897 – June 11, 1984) was an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times (1942–1968). Creator of many of the rules of modern crossword design, she compiled and edited a long-running series of crossword puzzle books – including the first book of any kind that Simon & Schuster published (1924). [1]
Matt Damon feels for Ben Affleck when it comes to life in the spotlight.. In a new podcast interview, Damon, 53, said he “can’t imagine” dealing with the scrutiny his best friend Affleck, 51 ...
When the going gets tough, the tough get going; When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash is before the oak, then you may expect a soak; When you have seen one, you have seen them all; What is learnt in the cradle lasts to the tombs; What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over