Word: tough
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Lucius Clay . . . He embodies what I like to believe America is in Europe, firm, patient, quite capable and basically tough...
...preparation for the story Correspondent Hannifin covered the ground thoroughly before undergoing the first of several interviews with Tacho, whom he found "a very tough and sentimental character, able and articulate under questioning, with what is undoubtedly the most calculating, retentive, audacious, and coldest mind in the Caribbean area." Before each interview Tacho would say: "Ask me anything, anything you want; I am opening my heart. Of course, I'm only a farm boy, not a politician...
...auto pilot and sit back. It's the only way we can fly as much as we do." In a single year MacWilliams had piled up more than 1,800 hours flying time, more than 150 a month. "They pay well," he said, "but it's tough. I don't get to see much of my wife and little...
...ranged all over China in 2½ years-Shanghai, Nanking, Hong Kong, Peiping, Mukden. "Today was especially tough," he said. "By the time we get back to Shanghai it will be 16 hours out for me -and only eight hours flying time. We get paid only for flying time. Then all that scrapping at the field to keep from getting overloaded. It was Mukden all over again. You can tell when they get that look in their eyes...
...even raise his soft voice in anger. Andrew Russell Pearson is a tall, tweedy, disarmingly mild-mannered fellow, with thinning light brown hair, a sparse mustache and earnest mien; he looks like a shy, quizzical cow college professor-except for his wary blue eyes. The mild manner camouflages a tough, diamond-hard core. And his casual clothes, his innocuously small-town look serve him well in Washington's lower echelons, where many of his tipsters work...