Word: hardbitten
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...From a southern Formosan base, hardbitten pilots of Marine Air Group 11 were flying round-the-clock cover for Nationalist transport planes airdropping supplies to Little Quemoy. At night the marines used F4D Skyrays; during the day they relied on FJ Furies...
...question mark. Late in the week two air force generals serving on France's joint chiefs of staff were placed under house arrest, and next day France's No. i soldier. General Paul Ely, chief of the joint chiefs, resigned in protest. The nation's 280.000 hardbitten police, who constitute a virtual army in themselves, still seemed loyal to the Fourth Republic. Paris, ringed by its famed "Red belt" of industrial suburbs, was as apt to be dominated by leftist mobs, if it came to that, as by the rightist mobs that rioted in Algiers...
...hardbitten, respected, slave-driving bastard," B.G. MacNabb, so excited over the recently successful test firing of "Big Annie"? His sophomoric screams of delight remind me of the reaction of an inadequate coach when his outclassed team scores a surprise touchdown...
...overhead. At last the red warning light blinked, and the workers cleared the area. The 40-man firing team had long since begun operations 750 ft. away in a sand-covered concrete blockhouse. A mile away, on the roof of a hangar, stood B. G. (for Byron Gordon) MacNabb, hardbitten, respected ("I'm just a slave-driving bastard") operations manager for Convair, Big Annie's builder. Tuned with a headset to the countdown, MacNabb relayed the information to a teletype operator below, who in turn flashed it to Convair's San Diego headquarters...
...smile almost too exquisitely sweet. Her eyes change, as the light changes, from blue to grey to green, and are unusually large; when she smiles, they brim with tenderness and a kind of luminous spirituality that seems to tame the beast and inspire the best in men. Says a hardbitten, hard-smitten Hollywood producer: "It is the face of a madonna...