Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dick waited patiently for the cats to settle down. He was holding a buggy whip and a broom handle, and he had a kitchen chair in case one of them got tough and jumped him. A pitchfork might have been better, but these were his cats (and his life's investment) and he didn't want to scar them. He called to Fay Maloney, his assistant: "Looks like an easy deal...
...tough, energetic Jack Small was anxious to get moving (possibly to the board chairmanship of 20th Century-Fox), but felt there was still much he could do for the Government. Steelman's office agreed by suggesting that if Small were appointed acting head of ORP, the agency to end controls could get going promptly...
...Tough Like Hell. The U.S. hoped to rush a helicopter and a crew across the Atlantic in time to be of service; it was ordered back from the Azores when word arrived that Swiss guides, Alpinists and planes had the situation well in hand. Swiss Army Private Marcel Etter, one of a party of 73 who made the tortuous ascent, told a TIME correspondent...
...Climbing all day long was tough like hell. The Americans who were wrecked . . . gave me coffee with milk and whiskey in it. I have never tried anything so bad. Must be queer people to drink that. But I like them...
...served on Henry Ford's abortive peace mission in 1916, later lost her Wellesley professorship for pacifism. As the WILPF's honorary president, she still crusades for its principles. She explains her vigor by a quotation: "My grandfather used to say that an old woman is as tough as a boiled owl." Recovering from bronchial asthma in a Wellesley hospital last week, she was delighted at the "genuine honor-my friends have been trying to get it for me for a long time...