Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year overseas business, but in the process achieved an understanding of the wider world of trade and global politics that is unmatched among Politburocrats. To two generations of Western diplomats and trade negotiators, this brisk and comprehending commissar has seemed "the best of a bad lot." To the rough, tough muzhik Khrushchev, he is the useful Mr. Worldly-Wise of the Russian proverb who "knows where the shrimps stay in winter." Today, as in Stalin's time, Mikoyan serves indispensably-and survives. Says a Briton who has watched Mikoyan for years: "He knows how to jump at the right...
...born the son of a tough coal prospector in Brazil, Ind., who tested the quality of coal by biting into the ore. When Jimmy was four, John Hoffa died with a coating of coal dust on his lungs. Viola Riddle Hoffa, mother of two girls and two boys, was as tough as her husband. Says Jimmy's brother Bill: "She was always telling us, and she made us listen, that Dad always kept his word . . . We had rules in our house. If your mother or father told you to do something, you did it. And they only told...
...tough life. Brother Bill took the crime road: felonious assault (1938), violation of probation (1940), carrying concealed weapons (1942). Today Bill Hoffa is a business agent for Teamster Local 614 in Pontiac, Mich...
...August ("Gus") Scholle, president of the Michigan C.I.O. Council. "Hoffa," says Scholle, "figures he can always buy what he wants." Adds a West Coast lawyer: "Jimmy Hoffa believes that anything can be accomplished and will seize a way to do it. You could count Dave Beck as being tough, but he's an angel alongside of Hoffa. Hoffa is just plain ruthless. Beck rants and snorts. As a last resort, he would use group physical violence, but he wouldn't have anyone bumped off. Hoffa wouldn't stop at anything...
...once ornate, four-story, Turkish-style house in the Casbah. Firing, their burp guns, the two rebels held out for an hour. Then one shouted. "We'll surrender, but only if Bigeard signs a safe-conduct saying that we won't be tortured." Down in the street, tough French Paratroop Colonel Marcel Bigeard ordered a ceasefire, and then watched as the terrorists lowered a small bundle by string to the street. Two French officers and a noncom walked over to inspect this "token of surrender"; it blew up. wounding all three and narrowly missing Bigeard...