Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...massive roadblock stands in the way of getting that money from Congress. Last fortnight the U.S. Senate Special War Investigating committee had some tough words to say about the highway. The committee concerned itself little with the road's prewar history, much with the wartime chapters, when German submarines threatened sea lanes in the Caribbean and a rush job sought to drive the highway through to Panama...
Before the Bull. On the last day (memorable for big, tough bulls), Manolete (real name: Manuel Rodriguez) himself appeared, icily calm in a white & gold costume. To him, rather than any other, is due the present revival of the art of the corrida. He gets as much as 150,000 pesetas ($13,700) for a single performance, and his Mexican partner, Carlos Arruza, gets almost as much. This pair has collared so many important fights and so much of the big Mexican bullfight money that they are engaged in a squabble with the Spanish Bullfighters Syndicate, headed by Juanito Belmonte...
...that was not all. Crowed the G.O.P.'s spokesman: "We're going to hand him some tough legislation on Communists in government and dare him to veto. We're going to give him some trouble on his Pendergast associations and the Kansas City frauds. Now it's our turn...
...good at making money (he ran a $40 stake in Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. into a $1,600,000 profit). But he was stiff-necked in his dealings with employees. The C.I.O. United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union, which was heavily sprinkled with Communist leaders, was just as tough as President Deeds. Last year their mutual toughness resulted in a bitter 20½-week strike which bled both sides white. The bitterness lingered...
Getting anything straight was obviously pretty tough. Said a headline over a United Press story: BUGSY'S BLONDE EX-WIFE GIVES CLUES TO HIS KILLERS. Said a headline over the I.N.S. story: BUGSY'S EX NO AID IN HUNT. Even the details of Bugsy's funeral became a matter of disagreement among the romancers. The New York Mirror had a picture identified as $5,000 SILVER-PLATED COFFIN FOR BUGSY. Said New York's Daily News: BUGSY'S WOOD COFFIN FOOLS 'EM AT FUNERAL. Where the truth was, no one seemed to know...