Word: nessness
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...week when Britain's Bevin and Churchill adopted tactics of extreme tough ness (see below), tough Molotov was rela tively relaxed. His whole speech testified to the U.S.S.R.'s awareness of its limitations...
...Little Business. The committee urged one outright tax cut, primarily to help little business. The cut: a boost in the excess profits tax specific exemption from $10,000 to $25,000. Thus any busi ness making less than $25,000 a year would pay no excess profits tax. At one stroke, this would take from "one-third to one-half" of all U.S. businesses out from under the tax. Estimated tax saving: $160 million a year...
...some time between 1815 and 1824, an angel descended to the green earth. Many later saw the angel's footprint, embedded in a slab of stone; but only one man, a six-foot patriarch with snowy beard and flowing white locks, saw the angel himself. The lone wit ness was Father George Rapp, founder of the first of two Utopias that flowered and withered in New Harmony early last century. Exploring their brief history. Mar guerite Young has written a sometimes difficult, often fascinating book whose erudite, poetical meandering explores some forgotten corners in the attic of U.S. history...
...Russians are armed, and they have lantern light and candles enough to last perhaps a week. An initialed German revolver leads them to suspect that an officer, who would have the information they seek, is hiding in disguise among their prisoners. Using their peasant shrewdness and stubborn ness against German craft and arrogance, and conducting an increasingly terrible battle against sleep, they set to work to worm the officer out of the group and the information out of the officer...
...cockiness causes him to blurt out a crucial Russian secret - that the counterattacking Russians will cross a river at an "impossible" point by means of a night-built, underwater bridge. (Of the building and the crossing there are some operatically magnificent shots.) In the long run, however, stubborn shrewd ness triumphs over crafty arrogance...