Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rough, Tough Army. But it was in Hungary that the reaction was strongest. There the moderate, non-Communist Small Holders' Party, which recently jolted the Communists in the Budapest municipal election, this week repeated its feat by a great victory in the national elections. The fact that Stalin's closest friend and adviser in the Red Army command, Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov, had been stationed there as the occupation chief attested the political importance of Hungary to the Russians...
Wherever the means existed, the Opposition was beginning to speak its mind. And it spoke loudest under the heel of occupation. No army of occupation is popular, and the rough, tough Red Army is an unrivaled ambassador of ill will. The longer the Russians stayed, the longer their presence and policy were resented. Indeed, Communist parties tended to put up better performances in countries where the Red Army had not settled like locusts (e.g., France, Denmark...
...football field, so-year-old Doc Blanchard is the relaxed "pro" (coaches and teammates call him that) who never gets tough until the going gets tough. Then his lips smack shut, his eyes draw a bead and the opposition had better have its insurance paid...
...been a top trouble-shooter for the Army's Air Transport Command-and boss of the Hump lifeline into China-last week cheerfully took on more trouble. With the store creases still fresh in his mufti, tall, tough Brigadier General Thomas Hardin went to work as executive vice president of TACA Airways' 13,000 miles of loosely knit air routes south of the border. His first move was to hire four of his top-ranking buddies in A.T.C. to help him run TACA...
...mixture of tough talk and greeting-card sentiment, Fallen Angel includes a bogus clairvoyant (John Carradine), a church organist (Alice Faye) and a pair of underprivileged lovebirds (Linda Darnell and Dana Andrews). In the resulting tangle, everyone is left to act pretty much for himself. The lovebirds come out best. Dana Andrews is a fallen angel with a mouthful of romantic talk and an eye for the main chance. Linda Darnell is Stella, a sulkily beautiful hash slinger who is weary of driving men to madness rather than to matrimony...