Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bombers. At the 100,000-acre Tom Talle Ranch near Aroya, tough, greying Manager Elmer Ray rounded up three of the tractors. Then, with six muffled, red-eyed cowhands, he set out across the prairies, clearing a path for the cattle. It was heartbreaking work; they fought drifts by day, worked by lantern light after dark "caking" the tired stock with concentrated protein feed. But in a week they got 2,500 of their 3,600 fine Herefords into railroad cars and on their way to market...
...like watching Joe Louis fight a Joe Louis: two champions in action-so tough, skilled, wary and evenly matched that they were a standoff, and nobody won. The big game of the season, Army v. Notre Dame, ended in a scoreless...
...caused by bacteria transmitted to human beings by infected cows, goats or pigs, either by contact or in unpasteurized milk or cheese. Hence it is most common in rural areas. Anyone who feels weak, tired, feverish and generally rotten should be suspected of having the disease-but detection is tough. Reason: the symptoms resemble those of many other common diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis, psychoneurosis. Undulant fever seldom kills, but it may keep its victims wretched...
Almost as soon as penicillin was isolated, chemists tried to make it artificially. The job was tough, for the penicillin molecule is unstable and exceedingly complex. Frantic wartime efforts by the British and OSRD (Office of Scientific Research and Development) did much of the pioneer work; the Cornell group finished...
Chandler Harris fans remember them. But any entertainer who tries to conjure up the good old days is courting tough competition with the sentimental, richer-than-life memories of his audience. Harris Fan Disney must have known he was taking that risk. Wise ol' Uncle Remus himself once observed...