Word: gruffness
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...Chicago Tribune's gruff Colonel Robert R. McCormick, an unswaying Taftman, conferred with Eisenhower for half an hour at the general's headquarters in France. Then reporters asked: Will you support Ike if he gets the Republican nomination? Snorted the Colonel: "I would support the Republican candidate. I supported Dewey, for God's sake...
When the professor started to read his statement before the Senators, he found the going rough. At every sentence he was interrupted by indignant questions. Gruff Pat McCarran said the professor's tactics of "intemperate and provocative expressions" were also Communist tactics...
Hardie made a farewell speech to a crowd of British newsmen. Its gist: "They can't sack me-I quit." A reporter asked when he would leave his $20,000-a-year job. "As soon as you gentlemen have gone," said gruff Steven Hardie, reaching...
...host in Parlor B was Waker Taylor, a large, gruff-voiced food dealer for whom politics has been an avocation for thirty-five years...
...movie's plot does not quite hold all this pageantry together, but De Mille's scripters and actors enter into the thing in the proper flamboyant spirit. Determined to extend a ten-week itinerary into a full season, Charlton Heston, the circus' gruff but devoted manager, promises his reluctant bosses (including John Ringling North himself) to show a profit. He imports Sebastian the Great (Cornel Wilde), a daring high-trapeze artist, thereby queering himself with Aerialist Betty Hutton, who must move out of the center ring. Betty starts a performing feud with Wilde, goads him into...