Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...social sciences, human and international relations, are lagging far, far behind the advance of physical science. However, too much pessimism, like too much optimism, destroys the energy and vision that will be required to make the future more than a magnified image of the past. President Conant's "tough minded idealists" embody precisely the qualities that are required--a realization of the world's flaws and faults coupled with a seal to eliminate them, and build a world that as yet exists only in hopes and dreams...
...Billy's conscious running has always been in the direction of money. Says he: "I spent the first 40 years of my life in the buck hunt. There was nothing in the world but Billy Rose and he was going to get his. It's a tough street, I told myself, and you'd better learn how to count." With Billy, that has often meant counting other people...
...Board's stenographic service. Soon he began spending nights at Baruch's house, taking dictation from the great man himself. The year in Washington was decisive for Billy's career. "I saw big men, the big tories, if you will, but big men, too. They talked tough, but they talked from information. I decided I wanted to be like them...
...busy at a weekly overhead of $9,200. He is making no fortune at it, but a new radio contract with Miller's old sponsor, Chesterfield cigarets, will help to foot the bill. Drawled Tex: "I don't know whether Glenn figured that times would be as tough...
...there are many more psychoneurotics at large than anyone had previously imagined (of all Army inductees, a startling 12% were rejected for mental disorders); and 2) it had provided clinical proof that no one, no matter how calm and complacent, is immune to psychoneurosis if the emotional strains get tough enough...