Word: hardbitten
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...Mountains. When he could not stand Nazi domination any longer, Batouvas joined other Greeks in Crete's mountain fastness and turned from a mild, slightly paunchy Greek into a hardbitten, tough guerrilla warrior. He grew lean, learned to live on one solid meal daily; he began to develop a consummate hatred for Germans and Italians. At first he was just a guerrilla among many hundreds. Then his head for business asserted itself. Today Manolis Batouvas is one of the three main guerrilla leaders on the island. Of course Batouvas is not his real name, just as George Petrakis...
...ship of the war is a slugging, hardbitten, 20,000-ton aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Enterprise...
...Hardbitten French professionals, returned to action and glory in Tunisia, had seen no finer staff officer than Major General Walter B. Smith (right), Eisenhower's chief of staff. Their recognition: induction in the famed 2nd Spahis as an honorary first class private. General de Goutel laid the colonial cavalry regiment's scarlet burnous on "Beedle" Smith's shoulders, pinned the outfit's medal badge on his O.D. blouse...
...There were no women doctors-and particularly no "hardbitten doctors," no "tough-as-leather assistants"-no "henbrained," no "vengeful" ones; and no burlesque queens or Fifth Columnists in the Nurse Corps on Bataan...
...Forces Commander in Britain (and therefore the General whose troops will first see action) is Major General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, 51, a hardbitten, freckled veteran who has been flying Army aircraft since the year after he left West Point...