Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demanding perfectionist, Gruenther seldom is more than gruff to erring allied officers. He saves the rough side of his tongue for his U.S. aides, a painful process known as being "Gruentherized." It consists in a detailed itemization of all the unfortunate officer's weaknesses, punctuated by explosive cuss words. Few escape. One sufferer remembers the time Gruenther wheeled on him for some minor blooper and snapped: "Ordinarily you're a pretty smart cookie, but this is the god-damnedest foul-up I've ever seen." Said the officer later: "I felt like falling on my knees...
According to McInerney, Puente has been working on his Latin American tax series for more than 15 years. Puente "did all the dirty work," researching, cataloguing, and rough drafts. In 1950 Puente asked Griswold to be American advisor for his Latin Tax Research Law Institute. Griswold informed Punete that he was interested and asked for details, according to McInerney...
Later, the Navy's surface vessels will carry offensive missiles, but life in war may be rough for surface ships, so the Navy is thinking hard about launching its missiles from submarines near an enemy coast...
...well enough, after their fashion. Once, on a ship during a pilgrimage to Rome, Cardinal O'Connell noticed a young lady applying lipstick, upbraided her severely. That evening, while the cardinal relaxed over a glass of port and a cigar, Dinneen asked him why he had been so rough on the girl. "The Holy Virgin Mary didn't use lipstick," said the cardinal. Retorted Dinneen: "And Jesus Christ didn't smoke cigars...
Interviewed by the quarterly English-language Paris Review, rough, tough Chicago Novelist Nelson (The Man with the Golden Arm) Algren, 46, gratuitously slipped a needle into the unprotected backside of rough, tough Chicago Novelist James T. (Studs Lonigan) Farrell. Said Algren: "Farrell . . . isn't even a real good stenographer ... He compares himself with Theodore Dreiser, but I don't think he's in Dreiser's league. He's as bad a writer as Dreiser, but he doesn't have the compassion that makes Dreiser's bad writing important." In Manhattan, Author Farrell...