Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desert is mirage-haunted and the track through it is marked by carcasses and bleached bones of camels slaughtered by Kazak wanderers for the water in their stomachs. Tough Moslem soldiers with us shot down desert antelope and huang yang, or yellow sheep. One marksman quickly slashed his quarry's jugular and guzzled the hot blood in the belief that this conveyed to him huang yang's keen eyesight. We preferred to quench our thirst more prosaically with Sinkiang's wonderfully succulent melons, bought at oasis towns along...
Said South Carolina's big James Richards : "We saw the Communist leaders in Italy and France and England. They are tough, hard, fanatical, well-financed and clever. They have the whole misery of the people to trade on. The European Governments are mostly made up of men who are old and tired and haven't the drive and determination of the Communists." One of the most cunning and toughest of Europe's Reds, according to Congressmen: Italy's Togliatti...
...owners may soon be able to park overnight in the H.A.A.'s Soldiers field Parking Lot for 12 cents a month and escape the wrath of Cambridge police whose "get tough" ticketing policy has jammed local garages beyond capacity...
...Rocky's war record last week, Illinois, Minnesota and Pennsylvania banned him from their rings. The National Boxing Association had not yet taken action, but declared itself in favor of "rejecting any participant in boxing who has not fulfilled his trust to his country." Rocky would have a tough time finding a place to defend his crown...
...elderly G-man (Art Smith) is also after the crook. The picture develops into a sort of three-legged rat race, carried on against the background of a small-time posh hotel, a grim little cantina and a turbulent fiesta. The movie has some well-written, better-spoken tough talk, plenty of menace, and some sharp violence. A good deal of it is just routine pocket thriller. But thanks to Director Montgomery and Producer Joan Harrison there is also some good New Mexican location atmosphere...