Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That breeze wafted a remarkable communication to the Japs. In leaflets dropped on Japan, rough, tough Major General Curtis E. LeMay listed eleven cities to be bombed by his B-29s. Then he hit six of the targets. Said LeMay, explaining this propaganda blow: "We feel that if we can convince enough of them that they have nothing to look forward to but total destruction, we may shorten the war. . . . We are telling them where we are going to hit and they can't do anything about...
Tough Job. Now Banker Snyder would find himself in a hurly-burly world of Washington compromise-of giving & taking and influencing people-at a time when the U.S. was moving into the delicate period of reconversion. Already the civilian side of OWMR was embroiled in a rough-&-tough battle with the military; OWMR felt that Army & Navy were holding too tightly to high production schedules, that the civilian economy should get a better break...
...most elaborate information service aboard his flagship of any commander afloat. His staff is large and he enjoys hearing it called the "Dirty Tricks Department." Its meetings are what the name implies: Halsey warned an overstarched admiral who joined him: "This is a pretty rough bunch. We don't stand on rank...
...known to Pyle readers. Ernie's film G.I.s, played with no gallantry and with great conviction, come through as vividly as they did in his dispatches. There are the Captain himself (Robert Mitchum), who leads his men to death in defeat and victory, hating every minute of it; rough, tough Sergeant Warnicki (Freddie Steele), who cracks up when he finally hears his baby's voice on a record from home; Private Dondaro (Wally Cassell), who impartially divides his time between chasing Germans and chasing skirts...
...G.I.s, war is no sporting experience. As Pyle says, "killing is a rough business," and for the most part "the G.I. dies so miserably!" What makes G.I. Joe an unusual picture is its unsparing reconstruction of a soldier's wretched little realities. Beginning with Company C's first fearful, fascinated look at death in North Africa, the G.I.'s lives are played out in endless rain,' mud, hunger, boredom, weariness and fear. The film's soldiers are grimy and unshaven; they do not march but stumble on in utter weariness; they talk in low, tired...