Word: toughest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Issue. For years, it has been plain that the top command job in the Jesuit order was too much for one man, that ailing Father Janssens' personal decisions were meticulous but sometimes slow. Toughest problem: every day Janssens must appoint from two to five new rectors or heads of globally scattered missions. Under the present system, the order's Provincials (roughly equivalent to local field commanders) submit names to Janssens' eight Assistants* (staff officers), but Janssens himself reviews all cases, makes all final decisions...
...hungry bite of victory. Within two years he had acquired an A.F.L. charter, moved his boys into the Teamsters Union, taken over the trusteeship of debt-ridden Teamster Local 299 in Detroit. Singlemindedly, he shoved ahead. "In those days," says Hoffa in his rough, staccato voice, "Detroit was the toughest open-shop town in the country. It was like a dime crime novel, with all the shootings and slug-gings. I was hit so many times with nightsticks, clubs and brass knuckles that I can't ever remember where the bruises were. But I can hit back. Guys...
...lifetime of just such preparation, plus a shrewd sense of utility, has established Arlene as the first lady of TV-and probably the highest paid. Toughest hurdle was Papa Kazanjian, who bundled Episcopalian Arlene off to a Roman Catholic convent when she was seven, later put her in Manhattan's flossy Finch School for proper young ladies. In a final, futile effort to steer her clear of the theater, he bought her a gift shop on Madison Avenue (Studio d'Arlene), which closed in the Depression. Soon a toughened veteran of the soap-opera circuit (Big Sister, Aunt...
Sergeant Werner Stephan, 40, was one cop whom West Berliners really liked. For twelve years, as the city's top bomb expert, he had Berlin's toughest and most dangerous job-defusing the thousands of unexploded bombs and shells still hidden in the debris of the shattered city. With his close police pal Gerhard Raebiger, he removed fuses from some 8,000 dud bombs, some 10,000 grenades. Through the years of reconstruction he was on call day and night, sometimes working 48 hours at a stretch on some particularly ticklish job. Once, when rubble removers uncovered...
...guard, the American Hospital Association advised all hospitals to inoculate their staffs as soon as possible, and (though there is no curative treatment for the influenza itself) to lay in ample stocks of antibiotics, oxygen and other supplies to combat such frequent flu complications as pneumonia. Toughest recommendation of all: hospitals should lay down firm admission policies before the epidemic strikes, announce that uncomplicated cases of flu cannot be admitted...