Word: ruggedness
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These porcelain figures are chessmen from the U.S.S.R., where chess is the most popular indoor sport and chess pieces represent figures in the class struggle. The chained worker is a capitalist pawn. The sinister piece whose head is a grimacing skull is the capitalist king. The rugged collective farmer is...
When scientists insisted that Curley was theirs to dissect. Curley's manager refused to part with him. Preachers and pundits made an issue of it-rugged individualism v. regimentation. Then one day Curley disappeared. His return was something of a miracle.
Successor. To take McNair's job on the home front came rugged, crusty old (65) Lieut. General Ben Lear. He had held the job before. In 1943 Whitey McNair made such a close-up inspection of U.S. troops in action on the African front that he was hit by...
The Reason. Mitchell Paige, no cinema gyrene, was a quietly savvy guy. He neither smoked, drank, nor swore (his most rugged expletive was saved for the Japs: "damned slopeheads"). In Samoa he nursed a child through fever, was appointed by the natives as "Talking Chief"-tribal adviser.
W.U. "a right wing progressive union" which "would bring about the most far-reaching changes only within our democratic framework." Dubinsky, says Stolberg, is a social politician equal to his times. For he understood that "the New Deal signalized a drastic reorientation in our society. It marked a real break...