Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sunrise, at midday and at dusk, church bells call to each other across the Emilian plain. In the past year anticlerical terrorists in the diocese of Reggio Emilia, near Bologna, had answered the bells by murdering five priests. Two months ago the Vatican sent to the tough district a tough bishop, Beniamino Socche...
...Wilfrid and his fellow missionaries had two tough nuts to crack: 1). find some way of making good the $750 million credit, now frozen in Britain, that Argentina built up with wartime food shipments; 2) get a return on their own $1½ billion investment in Argentina...
Another visiting journalist, France's Louis Martin-Chauffier, last week summed up the U.S.: "Good dough without yeast." Wrote he in the Paris Liberation: "American society is tough, commanded by the tough law of profit, by the even tougher law of the struggle for existence, reducing man either to a machine or to a nervous being straining simultaneously for the conquest of comfort and for self-defense...
When the going is easy, he is the spieling image of his father. When the going is tough, he is only the eldest son-but even then Jimmy Roosevelt is an able speaker with a pleasant voice and good diction. Last week, on the grounds that he had inherited enough of his father's magic to hold down a regular news commentator assignment, two small California stations signed him for a five-a-week schedule. (Both stations, Los Angeles' KLAC and San Francisco's KYA, are owned by the New Dealing, New York Post-publishing Thackreys...
Then along came a lot of big war contracts-and a man named Ernest Murphy. He was tough and bejowled, just like Diamond Jim, but he was no party-thrower. The hard-working Mr. Murphy shook the dust and defeatism out of Pressed Steel, gave it a new kind of flash. Result: last week, after nearly half a century of making nothing but freight cars, Pressed Steel sparkled with plans to invade the home-appliance field. The first shiny electric ranges were rolling off the production lines in its Chicago plant...