Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arms & the Man. One of the questions the legislators had raised was about Spruille Braden, onetime mastermind of the U.S. get-tough-with-Argentina policy. Marshall said he expected to settle that one within ten days. He soon gave evidence of what he meant. The Secretaries of War & Navy had advocated that the U.S. transfer a lot of its military equipment to Canada and Latin America, with the object of 1) nailing down the arms market; 2) standardizing and modernizing equipment throughout the Western Hemisphere; 3) thus bolstering hemispheric defenses...
...Tough Enough. Eighteen representatives of the two trustee nations met in Seoul's Duk Soo Palace. Their surroundings seemed a continent away-Corinthian columns, mirrored doors and long French Republic draperies. On the walls flickered tiny replicas of the torch that the Statue of Liberty holds. Outside, azaleas bloomed...
According to witnesses at the Lichfield prison trials, Brown, then chief of the Army's Ground Forces Reinforcement Command, had visited the notorious Lichfield guardhouse, said to one guard, "You're not tough enough on these men. You're running a hotel, Sergeant...
Hoboken didn't like McFeely. He was tough, glum, nickel-pinching, semi-illiterate and vindictive. When he left the seat of a dump cart for politics, he cultivated Democratic Boss Paddy Griffin so obsequiously that he was nicknamed "Me Too Barney." But when Paddy got sick in 1925, McFeely had what he needed to grab Paddy's power: he controlled the police and fire departments and thus almost all Democratic campaign funds...
...pilot in the Italian campaign, Locke is just getting his competitive edge back. His first. U.S. victim was Slammin' Sammy Snead, whom he thoroughly trounced in South Africa last winter. The day after Locke stepped off the plane from Johannesburg last month, he played in the tough Masters' tournament, and carded...