Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three weeks tough, scow-prowed Joe Curran, president of the National Maritime Union and once a loyal follower of the Communist line, had been fighting the Commies at the N.M.U.'s convention in Manhattan. It had been hard going; the N.M.U. is one of the most Communist-riddled of all U.S. unions...
Until recently, Duclos was supporting Thorez against the wing led by old André Marty, who favored a tough, out & out revolutionary line. Duclos saw the handwriting on the wall just in time. He asked to be sent to Poland; the party also sent Etienne Fajon, a Marty man, to watch him. For Thorez, there was literally handwriting on a wall last week. Scrawled outside Pere Lachaise Cemetery were the words Adieu, Maurice Thorez. Que Dieu ait son dme (May God have his soul), Marty's tough line will lose voters, but it will free the party from...
...going after the flies, busy spreaders of cholera, which swarm over Egypt in uncountable billions, as they did in the time of Moses. U.S. Pilot Bob Holt, hired by the Egyptian Government for antimalaria spraying, covers Cario daily with a fog of DDT. The flies of Egypt are specially tough, but the DDT is getting them down...
...about Allegro. Said he: "It's the first play I have written. It's the first time I have put myself into a show." Next day, he should have been feeling pretty good. He had written something he had greatly wanted to write. He had heard a tough first-night audience salute it, time & again, with excited applause. He had been informed by some of the critics that Allegro was "perfect," "a work of rare distinction," something that "made history on Broadway" (the Times's Brooks Atkinson found it a thing of "great beauty and purity [which...
Last week, in the mud flats adjoining the Musi River, in a 50-mile enclave only recently cleared by the Dutch of Indonesian insurgents, Palembang started refining stored crude left by the Japanese. The wells, some dynamited and others partly .destroyed by fire, were just beginning to flow. But tough, ruddy-faced Harry A. Gibbon, who had led Standard's task force to Palembang, hopes to have them in full production soon. By summer, he expects" to have Palembang turning out its prewar 45,000 barrels...