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Word: hardboiledness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The College, however, has "guaranteed to be hardboiled" about admission requirements, according to LaCroix. Each DP must be able to speak English well and must pass aptitude tests before he can be admitted. He also must be proved psychologically sound. Various relief organizations will screen the DPs for the NSA...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College to Waive Tuition Payments For 7 NSA DP's | 2/11/1949 | See Source »

Said Sawyer: "I am a believer in private enterprise . . . Government officials should remember that businessmen are working for profits. Profit... is the ignition system of our economic engine. The importance of profit must be recognized and utilized. Government should assume that businessmen are honest and have the welfare of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Sweet Reasonableness | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Also from Bucharest last week came another story (true), of a U.S. diplomat who had some business to conduct with a high-ranking official of Rumania's heavily guarded Ministry of the Interior. After several unsuccessful attempts, he finally managed to work his way into the imposing white ministry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: THE STORIES THEY TELL, Nov. 15, 1948 | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Strom Thurmond had not been an original, out & out advocate of bolting. At Philadelphia he had supported the nomination of Georgia's Senator Richard Russell as a way of registering a protest without walking out. But in the end he decided that the State's Rights Party was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Southern Revolt | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Glib Proposal. Was it Ike's fault, after that, if the pressure continued to build up? The week before the convention, such hardboiled political practitioners as Jake Arvey, Frank Hague and Bill O'Dwyer were willing to gamble that Ike actually would accept when the chips were down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No. No! NO! | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

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