Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With all its roughness and frequent lapses into the banalities of America's "tough" writers, Sartre's new novel is a rare and welcome plant in a period that almost completely lacks a balanced combination of emotional intensity and maturity in its writers. The author's obvious power in understanding character, together with a sort of revolted fascination for sordidness and degradation, make the book provocative and at the same time a little loathe-some. The moral twist at the end, which shows the most warped character to be the most responsible, is convincing, yet takes away nothing from...
...Madison, Dave Lilienthal was known as tough, stubborn, ruthless. "It was that driving and brushing aside," one of his associates recalls, "that irritated most of us so." But Lilienthal reorganized the Wisconsin utility statutes, which became the models for half a dozen states...
Britons had pinned high hopes on a successful trade deal with Moscow. To help ease the drain on Britain's U.S. dollar credits, they wanted grain and timber in exchange for British machinery. After weeks of tough bargaining, agreement seemed at last in sight...
Most of the way through Belgium and down to the Riviera, then through the Basque country and up to Brittany, the leader was Frenchman René Vietto, the favorite. But on the tough St. Brieuc-Caen lap, a countryside which U.S. troops also found tough going three years ago, Vietto tired. Almost half of the entrants had dropped out. Up moved Italian Pierre Brambilla and Breton Jean Robic...
...days a week at 44 Broad Street, in a block-long newsroom with chartreuse curtains and a soundproofed ceiling. As an extra service, the Journal prints tried & true jokes in a "Pepper & Salt" humor column, suggests that readers retell them at lunch "or to clear the air at a tough conference...