Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between 73-year-old Grand Chief Johnston and 72-year-old David Robertson, the wrinkled little chief of the firemen, there has been a long rivalry; they were trying to outdo each other as tough labor leaders. A. J. Glover, the big-boned boss of the switchmen, was newly elected; he also was trying to make a show with his rank & file. But all three leaders were chiefly resentful because railway wages had not kept pace with other industrial wages. Railway workers are no longer at the top of the labor heap. For oldtimers like Johnston and Robertson, this...
...hours later police found the friend - a scared, black-eyed 14-year-old named Anthony. At first, the boy acted tough ("Get those reporters outta here," he told police. "I don't want no pitchers took"), but gradually it all came...
...rubber-boat disaster at Motome, wearied, embittered, haunted by a premonition of death, snarling about the newcomers and (occasionally) feeling a grudging responsibility for them, nervous, profane, lecherous. Their conversation is recorded with the fidelity of a recording machine. Indeed, it is almost too exact and too tough to be quite accurate...
...letter convinces her that she has no hope. Her characterization is a strong one, stronger than Robinson's, possibly because her scenes are less flossy than his and all of a piece--she does not have to make hypocrisy convincing. Burt Lancaster is an uneven Chris, vestiges of his "tough man" roles seem to get in his way too often for his own good. All in all, however, if you're in the mood for it, "All My Sons" is well worth a trip down-town...
Cornell was a tough oarsmen battle last week, but predictions on tomorrow's struggle with Navy and Pennsylvania's crews seem to relegate the Crimson's previous defeat to the realm of canoeing on a moonlit lake...