Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fill Calhoun. currently Paris bureau chief, had two weeks in which to deliver a very tough job of reporting. Heretofore, getting French communists to talk had been about as easy as nailing a cherry pie to a wall. Calhoun assigned Bernhard Frizell, an experienced reporter who speaks French fluently, to question ordinary communists as to why they joined the party and to interview Mme. Thorez, who turned out to be strongly reminiscent of Pilar in For Whom the Bell Tolls...
...before the oarsmen could register their eighth consecutive sweep of the Blue crews (a streak unequalled in the history of the event) they had some tough going...
Next morning, Harry Truman's resolve was strengthened by about 2,000 telegram-30 to 1 in favor of his tough tactics. He called off any further conferences with Brothers Whitney and Johnston, did not even deign to read a letter from them which still sought extra concessions...
Before the night was out they passed the bill, bristling with tough amendments...
Calmest man in the kingdom was the new ruler himself. In an unadorned chamber of his hilltop palace he settled down on his throne-a raised, overstuffed armchair. The tough, aging (64) little man wore a simple black silk abbaya (flowing robe) with a gleaming white shirtfront, a white and gold headdress, and the gold chain which in Arab countries takes the place of a crown. Near him were his two sons and his kinsman Abdul Ilah, Regent of Iraq (which Abdullah dreams of drawing into a Greater Syria federation...