Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tough Enough. The simplest case was Poland's. A government under Russian influence, speaking on behalf of a people not under Russian influence, last April obtained from the U.S. a promise of $90 million for desperately needed reconstruction. Washington attached conditions intended to insure that the Polish people would soon have a voice in picking the government that spent the $90 millions. Among the conditions were: 1) that Poland would hold elections this year; 2) that the foreign press would be free to report the circumstances under which the elections were held; 3) that these conditions would be published...
...Tough. The most important-and perhaps the sorriest case-was the loan to Britain. The Senate's grudging approval (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) had sharpened British fears that in the pinch of revived competition in future years Congress would go back to high tariffs and trade warfare. Said London's Economist: "If the Senate has proved anything quite decisively, it is that Congress cannot be relied upon to pursue with any consistency the policy of moderation and liberality without which the whole structure of the loan, Bretton Woods and nondiscriminatory trade policy is built on sand...
...Operation Musk-Ox," the Canadian Army's strategic tour around the roof of the world, last week came to an inglorious end. It was licked by something few had foreseen-dust. Up till then, the 45 men in the expedition had endured unbelievably tough conditions in their 3,000-mile trek. Frequently the mercury dropped way out of sight (coldest day: 52° below zero). The ten snowmobiles floundered through miles of man-swallowing swamps; crossed ice-choked rivers in spring flood, like the Fort Nelson, on rafts; gingerly pushed their way across great chasms on improvised timber bridges...
Outside the Parliament Building, tulips bloomed and strollers idled along sun drenched walks. Inside, the House of Com mons was being told that Canada was in for a cold, tough winter. Reason: the coal strike in the U.S. (see NATIONAL AF FAIRS). Said Reconstruction Minister Clarence Decatur Howe: "The Canadian position will be very serious. . . . I am much more alarmed . . . than I was at any time during the war." Two days later the truce in the strike was reached. But even a final settlement would not mean coal for Canada right away. U.S. bins would probably have to be filled...
...went on talking soothingly. It had cost a fellow teamster chieftain, Dave Beck, endless time, abuse and trouble to round up Seattle's merchants, laundries and dry cleaners, back in the '30s. And Hoffa had learned plenty about trouble himself under the tutorship of Detroit's tough Bert Brennan-a teamster boss he had lately outstripped. Hoffa hoped to prevent a stampede, shoo Detroit's 6,400 into the corral in a body and close the gate as softly as possible...