Word: toughener
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...Jinnah denounced the "fratricidal war." But most observers wondered how Jinnah could fail to know what would happen when he called for "direct action." Shortly before the riots broke out, his own news agency (Orient Press) reported that Jinnah, anticipating violence, was sleeping on the floor these nights-to toughen up for a possible sojourn in jail...
...covering his bill-collecting rounds on the double, he saved time to toughen up his feet with twelve-mile runs in Peloponnesian stone quarries. His family made sacrifices to build him up: "Sometimes I eat meat, my wife eat peas." When he arrived in Boston, sportswriters regarded him as a nice feature-story subject, but no one thought he had a chance against defending champion Johnny Kelley or Montreal's three-time winner, Gerard Cote...
...youngest (27) dramatic critic in the U.S., he soon became a "formidable figure on Broadway." Woollcott liked to toughen his skin by jumping into the most nauseating jobs. Rejected for combat service in World War I, he got over to France, measured corpses for coffins and "had the time of my life" as an attendant in a venereal ward. Later, he became reporter for Stars & Stripes, wrote front-line stories that were "one long whoop of glory." He was blissfully happy. One of his friends was asked: "Where was Aleck while we were celebrating [the Armistice]?" "Probably in a corner...
Most of the German strength in the west is now committed to the fighting lines. The longer the blow is delayed, the longer Hitler will have to scrape up and train his ersatz divisions, to toughen his defenses in depth. On the other hand, a real breakthrough might tear the present front hopelessly open, might furnish the momentum for the knockout wallop in the west...
This description of the plight of German soldiers came not from Russian sources but from a Nazi correspondent, for Herr Goebbels has apparently decided that the best way to toughen German citizens is to scare them stiff. The report added: "The perpetual order is: positions must be held until retreat is ordered, and the order must be carried out at any price. Thus there are endless marches through night and darkness. . . . More than once entire regiments-and once an entire division-have had to fight a way through to our own lines...