Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...G.I.s were precedent followers rather than setters. Quite gloriously (not ominously at all) the pattern was cut for them in '76. In this country, tyranny has found it tough going from way back...
...Caribbean to incidents in the air over Yugoslavia. For months now the research librarian in charge of the Biography files in our Morgue has been working on a great continuing project to assist researchers in checking the proper names and titles of foreigners. It's a tough job. For example, one Siamese name, recently added to the files, was transliterated seven different ways by various news sources-and more than half of the folders in our files (there are over 300,000 in all) contain names that cannot be found in Who's Who or in any other...
...ancient curse upon them and no hysterical hopes; they had the peasant's love for the land, the schoolboy's patriotism, the self-righteousness of a very young nation. They were Sabras-nicknamed after the thorny, rather tasteless fruit of the cactus, grown on arid earth, tough, hard-living, scant...
Author Raymond Chandler's hero Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) hires on to help a tough old millionaire out of a bit of blackmail. Before he even knows her, one of the old man's daughters (Martha Vickers), a thumbsucking type with beautiful legs, indicates her depravity by trying, as the detective says, to sit on his lap while he is standing up. Her elder sister looks like, and is Lauren Bacall (Mrs. Humphrey Bogart); she seems to be interested in buying Marlowe out of the case, either by fiscal or physical currency. Still another compensation (Dorothy Malone), after only...
This novel tells what was behind the show in a southern state like Louisiana with a governor like Huey Long. It is a tough, triumphant novel...