Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still a bit perplexed at your story on Ilya Ehrenburg [TIME, April 29]: "Robert Glass . . . tossed them [the Russian newsmen] a tough one: would any Russian newsman have the right to write an article demanding Stalin's removal? Ehrenburg coolly sidestepped. . . . 'Categorically no! . . ."" Just what, in TIME'S estimation, might be a direct answer...
...delegates had done more than set a strike date. They had formed the C.I.O.'s sixth biggest union (214,000 members). And they had given the competition, the A.F. of L. maritime unions on both coasts, a tough trend to buck or follow...
None of the following speakers seemed to doubt Pappy Burke. But the mechanical details of consolidation bored them. The air was electric with hit-the-bricks talks. Cried lean, keen Harry Bridges: "The I.L.W.U. is ready to roll right now. The shipowners . . . are as tough and nasty as I have ever seen them...
...streets outside. Molotov's new mildness might be intended to help Europe's Communists after their setback in the French elections. But whatever the reason, the Four had danced through so many little difficulties in a week that they could once more tackle a really tough number: Trieste...
Downward Spiral. The Potsdam agreement had provided that Germany be administered as an economic whole. But even at that time the Russians were running their zone along lines the Western powers could not accept. Rather than face up to the tough problem of coordinated administration, the U.S. and Britain half welcomed French obstructionism, which made unification impossible...