Word: gruff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Motors Corp., this gruff Scot roared: "I have no objection at all to selling arms to both sides-I am not a purist in these matters...
...galaxy of correspondents and photographers gruff, iron-jawed Communist Party Agent Konstantin Giorgevich Petrov was introduced as "the man who discovered Stakhanov." Asked reporters of Stakhanov: "Do you get many letters? Do people write to you asking about your method of work...
...tradition that after generals have made war diplomats make peace. Utterly deadlocked, diplomats of Bolivia and Paraguay who have been trying to patch up peace during the Gran Chaco War armistice were served rough notice that they can go home and unbutton their spats by the two gruff commanders who fought each other to a standstill, Paraguay's General José Felix Estigarribia and Bolivia's General Enrique Peñaranda. These two extraordinary militarists, who opened the armistice with a champagne luncheon at which they toasted each other on the battlefield (TIME, July 29), got down to business last week with...
...wife who was thought to have been a bad woman. She quarreled with her only daughter, who resented the unconcealed and unashamed favoritism that Mrs. Fury showed for Peter. Mrs. Fury went hungry and never complained, humiliated herself begging money from her scornful children, even stole ?12 that her gruff husband had painfully saved, all for Peter's sake. Then Peter was expelled from college. On the same day that she heard the news. Mrs. Fury learned that another son had been hurt at sea. but she scarcely thought of her injured boy in her rage and panic, bewilderment...
Loyalty & Leadership. These examples of leadership sum up to about this: Joseph Taylor Robinson is a fine, hard-boiled top sergeant, always on the job, never sparing himself, short on finesse, but long on loyalty. Gruff, bad-tempered, wrinkled-faced, he has the voice of an angry bull and an equal amount of courage. But when it comes to wheedling buck privates who can no longer be driven, to using astute finagling to bring men into line, then Franklin Roosevelt has to rely on men like Mississippi's artful Pat Harrison and shrewd Vice President Garner...