Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They are also watching Ruiz Galindo. A harddriving, self-made man, he and his business philosophy represent modern Mexico: the Mexico whose industrial revolution is just beginning. Ruiz Galindo is smart, tough and patriotic. He wants to make money for himself and he wants to see Mexico prosper. His formula: 1) industrialization; 2) higher living standards-to increase consumer demand; 3) Government protection for young industry. His contribution to jacked-up living standards: the $2,000,000 Industrial City, Mexican capitalism's first paternalistic workers' community...
...been growing much faster in American culture than Protestantism. There are many factors which explain this growth. . . . The most obvious ones . . . are: 1) our secularized system of education; 2) our preoccupation with science; and 3) our organized and commercialized entertainment. . . . They represent vast concentrations of social preoccupation against whose tough grain Protestantism in our time has to make...
Paris theaters are spread all over the city, and each draws on a neighborhood audience as well as a wider public. But theaters very far off the beaten track have tough sledding, and some, like the Pigalle in Montmartre, have never had a hit. Many theaters, furthermore, are "typed"-the saying goes that at the Palais-Royal there is always a bed on the stage. At the Palais-Royal it used to be traditional, too, for a nude woman to dash across the stage once during the evening. That was what the regular customers came for; but they got bored...
Next day ordinary Germans hardly mentioned the raids. They had greater troubles on their minds. Once they had thought Versailles' 34 billion reparations bill too tough. Now they knew that Potsdam's modest demand for five billions in capital removals would be far tougher. In Berlin the four-power council announced a plan that spelled out the Potsdam Agreement, industry by industry...
Died. Field Marshal Viscount Gort (John Standish Surtees Prendergast Ve-reker), 59, former Chief of the Imperial General Staff, commander of the ill-fated 1940 British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium; after an operation; in London. A wearer of the Old School. Tie but a tough professional soldier, he won the Victoria Cross in World War I for directing from a stretcher an attack across the Canal du Nord near Cambrai. In World War II he led the British in one of their finest hours (the heroic retreat from Dunkirk), held Malta through the racking bombing...