Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home. In Pegler's eyes, it is "a combination dance hall, vaudeville house, nightclub and rat race for disorderly elements. . . . We who rent the rooms . . . have been imposed upon grievously ... to accommodate . . . casuals off the streets who come to dance, drink and marvel in alcoholic stupor at ... the tough blonde griping hoarsely into a tin can mounted on a pipe . . . and pretty little thrips who sing mischievously about adultery . . . while Ollie Twitch and his reefer boys are tearing the atmosphere to bleeding tatters from the platform and some agile mugger with greased hair is twining a boneless female around...
...plane suddenly whisked Minister Vyacheslav Molotov from Paris to Moscow. He had taken French leave of his fellow peacemakers. Diplomats speculated: Had Molotov finally walked out on the conference? Would he come back? Or did his flight portend a major review of Russian tactics in face of the new tough U.S. stand? Whatever the reason, the conversations in the Kremlin must be among the most stimulating (and possibly among the most decisive) in history...
...this welter of stubbornness, tough talk and bad feeling, what could Mr. King do? If he stood firm on the 10? line, as his colleagues had done in his absence, he would just prolong the trouble. Yet if he agreed to the union's demand, and repudiated his colleagues, he might bring a rift in his own Cabinet. Best bet was that Mr. King, an old friend of labor and a skillful bargainer, would effect a compromise somewhere around 12½?. This might bring the resignations of hold-the-liners like the Prices Board's Donald Gordon...
...Killers (Mark Hellinger-Universal), as Ernest Hemingway wrote it, was a short story and a simple one. It told how a pair of professional assassins talked tough to some people in a lunch wagon. Horrified young Nick Adams (Hemingway as a boy) managed to warn their quarry, the Swede, but the Swede just stayed on his bed, knowing he could not escape. Within a few crisp pages of dialogue, Hemingway created a masterpiece in terror-by-suggestion...
...York Mirror column Hellinger unabashedly sampled public reaction to the divorce. After imaginary interviews with a Wall Street clerk, a taxi driver, a socialite, etc., his final paragraph was the "Reaction of the Columnist, deep down in his heart: 'It's going to be awfully tough without you, baby. Awfully, awfully tough...