Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...M.I.T., Harvard should trim Northeastern by 38 points. Muzzling the Huskies, though, won't be as soft as this comparison would indicate, according to the Crimson's hoop mentor. "If we want to, we can win, but if we start thinking about Princeton, we may be in for a tough night...
President Conant spoke not so long ago about "tough-minded idealism." The trouble with many of the old idealists, the ones whose influence should now be approaching a peak, is that they have become tough--or perhaps the better word is "hard", and brittle--and soft inside. They are safe from the depredations of new ideas; they find it easier to chew their own fat. The man Mr. Conant is thinking of may have a tender skin, but his nerves are awake and he is well-muscled...
...born in Naples and brought up in Brooklyn. He was hot-tempered, dramatic, sentimental and tough; a hairy, meaty youth with cold eyes and a brawler's arms. An ugly scar disfigured his left cheek-the mark of a fiery little Sicilian who was the first and last man ever to cut him with a knife. He fought with either his fists or a pistol. By the time he was 19, he was skilled in robbery, and was suspected of two murders...
...Banion was rubbed out. His mob half-killed Johnny Torrio with shotgun slugs, broke his nerve and drove him out of town. For a while, the O'Banions were as tough as Al's mob. Its leaders were hard and ambitious-George ("Bugs") Moran, Vincent ("The Schemer") Drucci and Earl (Hymie) Weiss, the rosary-fingering inventor of the one-way ride. One day seven automobile loads of O'Banion men parked in front of Al's GHQ in Cicero and riddled it with Tommy guns. Al escaped. The O'Banions were not really broken until...
...leave until the Communists were put down. The general opinion was that they were there to help the Kuomintang, not to "repatriate prisoners" as headquarters was claiming. With the comfortable feeling that whatever happened, good old Uncle Sam would never let them down, the reactionaries could be just as tough in dealing with the Leftists as they wanted. When the nationalist army was transferred to Hulatao in LST's, and Lend-lease material continued to flow in long after the war was over, they had good reason to believe so. In no time at all, of course, the Communists developed...