Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fights for the war's duration because the fighting cows when in training are fed white wine and bread and are not expected to produce much milk. Last week, thanks to peace, hundreds of cowbells in the passes leading to the high pastures tinkled a martial melody: tough Valaisan farmers and big Valaisan cows were heading for another rendezvous with destiny...
...reveal this information. Silver-haired Anthony Eden, handsomer than his pictures make him out to be, rises and wants to know what the Government has done about the Mihailovitch trial in the light of the fact that the British government supported the Chetnik leader for two years. Heavy-set, tough-looking Ernest Bevin lurches to his feet and answers that the British government made certain information known to the Yugoslav government, but could not interfere further in a trial in a sovereign nation. And so the business goes on until the questions are exhausted. Then to the major business...
...book is tough reading. Everybody keeps talking all the time, and not about anything that seems to matter much except in certain circles of well-to-do suburbia...
...known as Mellon National Bank and Trust Co., will give Pittsburgh its first $1 billion bank (16th largest bank in the U.S.). It also intends to give such other giants as Manhattan's Chase National and old A. P. Giannini's Bank of America some tough new competition for a bigger share of the nation's industrial loans...
Ernest Hemingway: "Most of it is tough going." For Whom the Bell Tolls took 17 months of work, on a daily 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. schedule...