Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diplomat appraised Lie as "a man with guts; no political or other culture; not the ideal man; but the best available, since it finally had to be a European." Old-style diplomats found him uncouth but impressive, "a rough diamond." The difference between Lie and smooth, aristocratic Sir Eric Drummond, first Secretary General of the League of Nations, might mark the difference between UNO and the League...
Trygve Lie was the son of a plain carpenter of Grünerlökken, an Oslo workers' suburb. He became a union lawyer, for over 20 years held his own in the rough & tumble of Norway's Labor politics. When the Germans invaded Norway, Lie, as Minister of Supply and Shipping, ordered the merchant marine into Allied ports, then fled with the Norwegian Government on a British battleship. Later his buxom wife Hjördis and his three daughters joined him in London, where he embarked on a new career-diplomacy...
Until a year ago its leader was President Boleslaw Bierut, 54, a veteran Communist, who now, because of his official position, adopts an air of aloofness towards rough-&-tumble politics. Currently, the party's most brilliant performer is Industry Minister Hilary Mine (rhymes with quince), 41, a blond, bespectacled intellectual who spent the war years teaching economics in Russia. He drafted the drastic Nationalization Bill. His avowed objective is "the liquidation of feudalism and also capitalism in Poland." The son of a wealthy Warsaw businessman, Mine was brought up in comparative luxury. Old Madame Mine used to brag about...
...amount of cutting short of a total ban can rob "Scarlet Street" of its oppressive naturalism, of its rough sketch or unpleasant characters, illicit love, and miscarried justice. That the Johnston office passed it in the first place is gratifying, for it flies in the face of the precepts of movie morality set up by Will Hays...
Married. Lieut. General Lewis Hyde Brereton, 55, rough-&-tough Annapolis-graduated air corps oldtimer, whose varied World War II commands took him from the Philippines (at Pearl Harbor time) to India to Africa to Europe, where his Ninth (tactical) Air Force helped blast the way for invasion; and Londoner Zena Amanda Bell Groves, 34, whom he met in England when she was chauffeuring dignitaries as a Motor Corps member; he for the third time, she for the second; at Mitchel Field...