Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tough little Chancellor Leopold Figl maneuvered so skillfully that even Austria's Communists backed his gesture of defiance to Russia...
...Tough guy inflation has had his grizzled mug transformed behind that oh, so gentle screen, the sieve-like measures which have taken the place of O.P.A. Even when the laws now on the books take full effect on August 20, their effectiveness will be measured not by their phraseology, not even by their three-man administration, but only by the willingness of the buying public to back up a bill that was designed for its protection. With or without government price control, the fuse on inflation is sputtering behind the customer's back, ready to lead up to a boom...
...knockdown-dragout civil war is determined to push the Communists away from the railroads and out of economically important areas. The big question is whether the Generalissimo can keep the Communists bottled up on the sidelines while he achieves his objectives in a short time. If the going is tough the next two or three months, he will probably return to negotiation-provided hell does not pop beyond the possibility of control...
Cultural Commander. Cugat's first shrewd step in 1927, after a turn as a cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times, was to join Vincent Lopez' orchestra. ("It was tough. I had never been in a dance hall in my life. I had lots to unlearn about music.") He soon unlearned enough to collect six Spanish musicians and book himself as a relief band in Los Angeles' gaudy Cocoanut Grove. Bashful couples were afraid of his Latin rhythms, so he hired a half-dozen tango experts to whirl unescorted ladies around the floor ("If women learned, their...
...moonlit Waikiki beach last week, the flying fishes had tough competition. Inside Waikiki natatorium, the crack team of the Hawaii Swim Club took on the visiting national A.A.U. champions from Ohio State. In the process, the Hawaiians broke one Olympic and three U.S. records-all to the greater glory of a sad, serious-minded U.S.-born Japanese whose ambition is to get his boys on a U.S. Olympic swimming team, and to be their coach...