Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This done, the Republicans checked out of the Kansan Hotel. Next morning cleaning women removed a near truckload of empty whiskey bottles from bedrooms; bellhops rested after a tough day & night of toting sparkling water and ice; and Topeka bootleggers happily totaled up the receipts...
...officials) welcomed them because they lured some 10,000 curious North Iowa visitors to town. In gratitude, the boes ladled enough Mulligan stew from billycans to feed the crowd. They chewed the guff about life on the road and the state of the union. All agreed that times were tough. There were so many jobs to be had, it took an iron will to remain a hobo...
...partial justification for Lichfield's "get-tough" policy, Army apologists had pointed out that many of the prisoners were combat dodgers. At a time when the need for replacements in Europe was critical, the best way to get them back to duty was to make the guardhouse so tough that they would prefer the front lines. But many of the 6,000 prisoners who passed through Lichfield's stockade were minor offenders-AWOLs by only a few hours...
...huts and farmers' sickbeds. He went down mine shafts after many a mining accident, delivered three generations of babies, as often as not without being paid. When a Caesarean seemed indicated, Dr. Porter, no surgeon, did the best he could without operating. When women standing around during a tough birth got hysterical, Dr. Porter shouted: "Shut up or I'll throw the whole goddamned bunch of you into the road." During one delivery of a young mother with gonorrhea, he picked up an infection, lost...
...Kavan shows, the normal man is apt to appear either as a potential "traitor" and "betrayer" or as a blind, stolid creature who has no awareness of the terrifying "powers" that control the destinies of man. Sometimes these omnipotent powers assume human shape. They become "authorities," "officials," "advisers"-suave, tough men & women with hypodermic syringes who may rudely invade your own home at any moment, pack your suitcase, and drive you away to "prison" in a closed car-while the husband who once told you he loved you looks the other way, or assists the invaders...