Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good-natured jabs at the jitterbug cult, Something in the Wind quickly sinks in a welter of foolish movie clichés. Johnny Green's score (best songs: Something in the Wind, I'm Happy Go Lucky and Free, The Turntable Song) has a tough time bucking the script. Several competent supporting actors (Donald O'Connor, Charles Winninger and Margaret Wycherly) stand around looking vaguely embarrassed...
...understand Allen when he writes: "Tailors and bootmakers in neighboring towns were deluged with rush orders for smart battle jackets and combat boots . . . high-geared action, hard-hitting competence, and breezy cockiness became HQ Third Army's fixed character and tempo. It moved, talked, and fought, fast, tough, and hard...
...will have a chance to see how good his team is at this stage of the season when the Crimson scrimmages the Worcester Scandinavians, a semipro outfit from out Holy Cross way. Well-acquainted with the tricks of the soccer profession, the Scans are probably as tough opponents as the booters face all year...
...Robinson's own Dodger mates who first came round. One or two of his fellow Dodgers began to say "Hello" to him in the locker room. Jackie wrote to his high-school baseball coach: "It isn't too tough on me. I have played with white boys all my life. But they hadn't played with a Negro before, and it sure was rough on some of them." Soon he was invited to play cards on trips, but though he didn't like the deuces-wild type of poker the boys played, he joined...
Senator Martin opened the hearing with what seemed to be stern words. "I realize that steel is a tough business," said he. "But in the steel business, or in any other business, management has no more right to adopt a public-be-damned attitude than labor or Government." Such an attitude, he warned, might lead to Government policing and even nationalization...