Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...competition from others of south ern California's indigenous religionists was tough and he got little recognition. Finally in an excess of zeal, he announced that U.S. planes with Japanese colors had bombed Pearl Harbor on orders from the "hidden rulers of the world." He was arrested, convicted of sedition, sentenced to five years in prison. "Mankind United" collapsed...
...will keep it all moving west of the Mississippi, where the arteries thin out, is tough, able William Franklin Kirk of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Co., on loan to the Office of Defense Transportation. Bill Kirk is no novice at playing the western railroad keyboard for all it is worth. After some two and a half years of watching over a swelling torrent of war freight, Railroader Kirk is reputed to know every siding west of the Mississippi River...
...Force added their bit. Then U.S. Rear Admiral Russell S. Berkey sailed his light task force of cruisers and destroyers in for four days' naval bombardment. Foo-Foo really got rolling when U.S. Rear Admiral Forrest B. Royal brought up his Seventh Fleet landing craft loaded with tough, felt-hatted veterans of the illustrious 9th Australian Division and a token Dutch force...
...their columns moved westward from the Paoking area, northward from Chengpu, the usual ragged Chinese armies were suddenly stiffened by U.S.-equipped units, tough and battlewise. The Japs, who had set out on a mere punitive expedition, found themselves fighting a hard, draining battle...
...mail train, a harmless elderly couple and two of his associates; and how at last his girl betrayed him to G-men, who shot him down as he walked out of a nickelodeon. Fortunately, this old-fashioned story is told in an old-fashioned way. The result: a tough, tight, tense, tricky little melodrama...