Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brigadier General Luis Ordóñez delayed his abductors 20 minutes with a tongue-lashing but was forced to go along anyway. The capture of tough Major General Deogracias Fonseca was noisy; a guard managed to scream: "Save yourself, General! They've come to kill you!" Struggling, Fonseca was hauled off bodily to his pickup truck...
Pimps, naturally, hate him. One tough character, who has since been murdered in an underworld row, threatened to kill him. Recalls Père Pigalle with a laugh: "His women disappeared. He got it into his head that it was I who was taking them away. Imagine it-with my bald head and more than 70 years!" On another occasion two would-be assassins rang the priest's doorbell, pistols in hand. "I implored them: 'Not at this hour-you'll wake everybody up. Put your playthings away and come in if you like.' Finally, they...
Freshman Face Tough Crews...
...Wonder. The big snag in the plan was the top Conservative, tough old (69) ex-President Laureano Gómez. Angry at the moderate wing of his party for supporting his ouster by Rojas in 1953, Gómez ruled its members out of the running as joint presidential candidate, thereby ruled out every top-quality candidate the Conservatives had. Weeks of bickering finally convinced Gómez that Liberal Lleras was the best choice...
...what the world was to William James's hypothetical baby, "a big. blooming, buzzing confusion." In terms of U.S.-style efficiency, he regards the Chinese as nature's eternal amateurs. Author White portrays him as the last authentic American hero-type, the hero as old pro, the tough-minded man who does the best possible job under the worst possible circumstances...