Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until recently most airmen believed that the problem of supersonic flight was tough, but eventually crackable. Last week they were muttering doubts. U.S. Army Air Forces at Muroc Dry Lake, Calif, had postponed their scheduled attempt to break the British-held speed record (616 m.p.h.). The British themselves were poking into hedgerows, looking for further bits of Geoffrey de Havilland's Swallow, which mysteriously came apart in mid-air (TIME, Oct. 7). Unofficial reports indicated that the Swallow had reached 650 m.p.h. in level flight before it disintegrated. This figure, many airmen now feared, might be close...
...Died. General Joseph W. ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell, 63, tough, leathery wartime commander of the U.S. forces in the China-Burma-India Theater during the first grim two years of the war; of a liver ailment; in San Francisco (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...dress suit and town car to play gentleman (he isn't really a butler at heart, of course-only an unsuccessful painter). Before he knows it, he has rescued a lady in danger (Ella Raines) by indiscreetly signing a hot check for $103,000 payable to a tough-skinned, softhearted gambling king (William Bendix...
...major radio speech reporting on the Paris Peace Conference, Byrnes also replied to former Secretary of Commerce Wallace's protest that the United States is pursuing a "get tough with Russia" policy. Neither the word "tough" nor "soft," he said, accurately describes "our earliest efforts to be patient but firm...
With a team still in the training stage, the Rhode Island State-Connecticut meet at Franklin Park tomorrow looks like a tough nut to crack. Rhode Island is a school that takes cross country very seriously and this season's team has already crushed Springfield College 20 to 41, a rout in a cross country two-way meet. Connecticut is an unknown quantity, but Jaakko is confident that this meet will give the team the necessary experience to face Dartmouth next week and the Yale-Princeton triangular in a fortnight...