Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sell on dubious credit) to countries which have no dollars to pay for it. The Administration wanted $350 million for Italy, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Greece† and China. Last week the House Foreign Affairs Committee rewrote the bill, to give the U.S. a foreign relief policy just as tough as its general foreign policy...
...well-trained troops, Smith probably had the edge, for his most effective fighters included a case-hardened cavalry division and contingents of marines. Smith's opposite number in the rebel camp was tantalum-tough, moonfaced ex-President Rafael Franco, leader of the vaguely leftist Febrerista Party...
...when Dictator José Uriburu threatened to close La Prensa unless it stopped attacking him, the paper's tough old owner and publisher, Ezequiel Pedro Paz, told him that he would move the paper to Paris and keep up the fight from there. General Uriburu piped down. That was 16 years ago, and Don Ezequiel, paralyzed by a stroke in 1943, has never known that his paper was closed for five days in April 1944, for opposing the militarist Farrell regime...
...newspaper editor, his masthead motto had been: "Independent in all things, neutral in none." When he became acting governor in 1943 (the governor-elect died before taking office), Wisconsin politicians learned that he hadn't changed. The self-styled "tough old codger" tackled every sacred cow and pressure group, from the American Legion to organized labor. He cracked down on lobbyists, gamblers, and battled the highway lobby...
...Bengali pseudonym meaning approximately Swami-Bliss-through-Divine-Union) is something of a document. It is not likely to give the uninitiated much insight into India's ancient teachings. It does show exceedingly well how an alien culture may change when transplanted by a businesslike nurseryman from the tough soil of religious asceticism into hothouses of financial wealth and spiritual despair...