1.   Cantankerous, sometimes contrarian, and nearly always to the extreme left in his politics, the raspy-voiced Terkel typically has worn a tough exterior.

2.   For many here, the City News Bureau was an icon in a city known for its tough exterior and its hard-nosed journalism.

3.   Mussina has a tough exterior that many in the media have found difficult to penetrate.

4.   Otherwise, if the broccoli stem is woody, peel off the tough exterior.

5.   The women, she recalled, had developed tough exteriors.

6.   They did, and molds with tough exteriors and interior branches and channels are now in widespread use in the science of growing living tissue.

7.   While he walked on the beach Joseph Vacanti spotted a piece of seaweed with a tough exterior and finely detailed interior branches.

8.   When Little Bear solemnly tells Boone about his wife and child dying of smallpox, the cowpoke with the tough exterior can only weep.

9.   His tough exterior was necessary in his early days in Dallas.

10.   The muscle-bound guitarist, leader of underappreciated bands the Dictators and Del Lords, is another New York City native with a tender heart encased in a tough exterior.