Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quiet Toughness. Late Wednesday David Ben-Gurion got a personal message from President Eisenhower. Its gist, as relayed by Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban, was that the U.S. had reached a stern decision: unless Ben-Gurion backed down and agreed to retreat from the Sinai peninsula as the United Nations asked, he could not expect any U.S. aid in the event of a Soviet attack. The White House had already made clear to Paris and London that the U.S. did not conceive its NATO commitment to include the Middle East or Cyprus if the Anglo-French persisted in their...
...after twenty minutes of resistance, Ras el Naqb near Elath after a brief engagement and Quseima after forty-five minutes . . ." Only once, at the crucial road junction of Abu Aweigila on the Jerusalem-Ismailia highway, did Egyptian armor and artillery succeed in stalling the Israeli advance (TIME, Nov. 12). Tough Moshe Dayan, dashing about Sinai in a command car from hotspot to hotspot, promptly took charge. "Our infantry was inching along taking casualties under heavy artillery fire," he said later. "About 1 p.m. I told the commander he must take Abu Aweigila before 5 and darkness. I told...
...very night that the tough old leader made his submission, Israeli newspapers carried reports that fedayeen guerrillas had struck across the border in a half-dozen raids from Jordan. Whatever the Israelis had won by their preventive war, they did not appear to have won a peace. "Go-it-alone" Israel, in its fear of the Soviet Union, turned once again toward cooperation with the U.N., and above all toward...
Giant. In a big (3 hr. 18 min.), tough picture based on Edna Ferber's bestseller about Texas, Director George Stevens digs the rowels of social satire into the soft underbelly of U.S. materialism; with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean (TIME...
...Gill-sized Author Capote-5 ft. 4 in., 122 Ibs. -is an accomplished judo artist, is proud of his ability to outwrestle Screen Tough Guy Humphrey Bogart...