Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They're a tough, big, powerful team," says Coach Moo Berg, "but they play the same style of ball that we do, which ought to make it a good game...
...Blanche Yurka), his still violently Nazi son-in-law (Tonio Selwart). There is Theodore Bruce (Walter Greaza), a visiting Chicago tycoon who, because business is business, would give Benckendorff cartel blanche; there are various indifferent, homesick American soldiers and officers; and there is Lieut. Colonel Woodruff (Thomas Beck), whose tough occupation job is to stabilize and denazify the Bavarian town...
Copy by the Clock. Every day Jones leaves his suburban home at precisely 8:15, reaches the News at 9:15, starts for the courts at 10. He does his crossword puzzle on the subway, finishes it during dull cases, if it's a tough one. His round is unfailing: Monday, Bow Street; Tuesday, Marlborough Street; Wednesday, Old Street; Thursday, Clerkenwell; Friday, Bow Street again. Jones leaves the court by 11:30, lunches at 12 exactly, begins to write at 12:30, is through at two. He is home again at 4:15 (having stopped for a drink...
Cagney is as tough and unlovable a little spy-instructor as he was a public enemy. Annabella is as pretty as any female agent need be, but she parachutes into occupied France, goes briskly about her hazardous work and never once bats an eyelash at either Nazi or Ally. All the French streets and London buildings in Rue Madeleine were photographed in Quebec and New England. Now that studio technicians have learned how to reproduce everything from the Gare du Nord to the Himalayas right in Hollywood,* Producer de Rochemont is plugging for the revolutionary theory that everything-rooms, street...
...Hope. The leaders in developing the new sulfa treatment were Dr. Faget and world-famed Leprologist George H. McCoy, head of Louisiana State University's preventive medicine department. (They long ago dropped the traditional chaulmoogra oil as worthless.) Because leprae bacilli are tough, and most of Carville's patients are in advanced stages of the disease, recovery is slow. But heavy daily injections of Promin (or doses of Diasone or Promizole pills) gradually clear out the bacilli, reduce swellings, heal lesions...