Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Getting specific, he said that Republicans would shove out incumbent Democrats in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Maryland, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Washington, Missouri, Wyoming and Montana (which would mean unhorsing such tough, old Democratic mules as Burt Wheeler, Joe O'Mahoney, Dave Walsh...
...well enough. Viennese, who have good-naturedly renamed jeeps Schlampenschlepper (hussy buggies), fraternize with zest. But Austrians live in an old, proud civilization, still sprinkled with feudal glitter; while they fear that Russia might smash it completely, they are not so sure that the Americans, with their strange, casual-tough ways, might not harm it too. They would like to get rid of all occupiers, Eastern and Western alike. Viennese cabaret skits express their mood. Samples...
...last week the U.S. had learned how tough obtaining bases in peacetime could be. It had suffered one defeat in Iceland, when the infant republic truculently asserted its neutrality, signed a trade treaty with Russia, and decided to keep both U.S. and U.S.S.R. military forces out of the island. Greenland, whose bases border the Arctic Circle, would be less trouble...
From that point on, his liberal Education was dearly bought in a series of tough schools. He stayed in Spain until the bitter-end exodus to Perpignan, then spent three years grimly reporting the decline & fall of the Italy he had once admired. He was kicked out twice, readmitted once. In India, he put in eleven months of painstaking discovery, came to no startling conclusion about "the problem," but gave Times readers a memorable correspondence course in its complexities...
Born. To Pat O'Brien, 46, soft-hearted tough guy of the screen, and Eloise Taylor O'Brien, 43, onetime Broadway actress: their first child of their own (three adopted), a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Kathleen Bridget. Weight...