Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fools' Bravery. "You are not tough when you gut a gun in a man's face and take what he has worked hard for. It don't take guts to do that. Any fool can put a gun in his hand and do wrong. But it takes a man with guts to get a job and work for what he wants...
...formal appearances in Santa Cruz, he drew no wild applause. But he got a wonderful break before he left town. Tough, chunky Harry Lundeberg, belligerent chief of the A.F.L. Seafarers Union and archenemy of Harry Bridges, asked for a chance to talk to him. The next day Harry Lundeberg startled everyone in sight. The Senator had told him that he was considering an amendment to the Taft-Hartley Act which would permit a closed shop if a majority of workers favored...
...never have worked in my life. I preferred boxing because I thought I was tough. ... I was one of the best fighters in my class at one time, but how do you think I got my money? I didn't get all of it from boxing. I was a stickup man that's what I was at the age of 16. I was boss of a gang, I mean I was the head of some tough guys...
Hungarian-born Robert Capa, a friendly enemy alien, was in a tough spot. Hopefully, he yelled back, "Take it easy!" but the trigger-happy G.I., hearing his guttural accent, began to shoot. There was only one thing...
Last week, in Manhattan, 49-year-old German Jesuit Lassalle described how he did it. The Japanese in Brazil, he explained, came there originally to farm and fish, make their fortunes and return home. The Jesuits first became interested in them in 1924 as a means toward the tough job of converting Japan...