Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squatters prepared to stand off a siege. Many got a winter supply of coal, and began having ice, groceries and milk delivered. They hired two lawyers. But at week's end the going began to get tough. Six of the veterans were arrested for trespassing. Said their leader, ex-Pfc. Paul Principato, as he was booked by the cops: "Who wants that medal of mine? They can have...
...fight for 21-year-old Joselillo, which brought him $12,660. Few days later, he was wounded by a bull, got stitched up, returned to fight a second bull, got wounded again. This winter, if his health lasts, he will become a full matador, fit to join the really tough company of the great Spanish past masters, Manolete and Ortega. Say the Mexicans of immovable Little Joe: "His future is either five million pesos-or the mausoleum...
Scored on only once by an unexpectedly tough Freshman eleven, Coach Chief Boston's charges have won six straight contests this year and are favored to annex another today at the expense of the unheralded merchant sailors...
...would be tragic, indeed, if another period of spiritual bankruptcy were to be foisted upon the United States and the world. What is called for is a 'tough-minded idealism,' to borrow Mr. Conant's phrase, that will utilize the moral and idealistic energy generated during the war for peacetime social goals, that will establish practical aims for common action. "Tough-minded idealists" are needed to lead and implement such a program. Only thus may this country preserve its moral leader shop among nations and continue to lead the way to peace and well-being...
...made in 1944. His rival among the more comprehensible instrumentalists will be Rex Stewart, Ellington's former solo cornetist who achieves remarkable tonal effect with the valves of his horn pushed down just half-way. The other steadying influence will be the corpse who walks like a man, Dave Tough. This made over two beat artist has probably played in more widely divergent groups than any two other jazzmen, having run the gamut between Condon and Spivak...