Word: ruggedness
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For the important fact is that this one of Mitchell's followers is today commanding general of the Army Air Forces. Deep-chested, rugged "Hap" Arnold, now white-haired but still grinning with the habitual benignity that has kept his West Point nickname alive through 35 years of Army...
From then on he had plain sailing to the top. General Arnold worked prodigiously at his desk, flew prodigiously, never lost his grin. Articulate, facile with words, he wrote boys' books about a young flying hero; with rugged Major General Ira Eaker as collaborator, he began turning out books...
Sun Chariot, a saucy little filly, had flounced off with the Thousand Guineas and the Oaks. Big Game, a rugged, easygoing colt, had taken the Two Thousand Guineas. Now it was up to Big Game again, and loyal Britons made him the hottest Derby favorite since 1918. With Imperial pride...
In the broad valleys, high among the peaks, where once strode conquistadors in clanking metal, in the rugged mountain haunts once occupied by bewhiskered revolutionaries, the rumble of a new war was heard. It was being fought by men and machines on continents separated from Mexico by thousands of miles...
Revolution of '48. Among the first to prick this Raphael bubble were seven young men who banded together in 1848 as "The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood," to defy academism by returning for inspiration to the freshness of Botticelli, Mantegna and other predecessors of Raphael. In art they left nothing rugged...