Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sired by Failure. Poor, proud, tough and relatively small, the packinghouse union was born in 1937 of the repeated failures of the A.F. of L. and independent unions to wring concessions from the "Big Four" packers (Swift, Armour, Cudahy & Wilson). At the core of its membership are Negro/Irish, Slav and Mexican knockers, hog-splitters, blood-catchers and miscellaneous workers who do the hard, dangerous, foul-smelling labor in the huge packing plants...
...Mike carries a blackthorn cane (as a boy he injured his hip in a fall), talks tough, and considers his greatest achievement a daring sit-down strike he pulled in 1937. He loudly denies that he is a Communist, but he has followed the U.S. Communists' corkscrew line with regularity...
...Mans, but in the memories of G.I.s the institution (100 miles southwest of Paris) was the "Continental Stockade." Whether they had suffered its rigors while confined for offenses against military law, or whether they had merely observed them from the outside, the men agreed that it had been tough-like Lichfield, England (TIME, Dec. 31, Jan. 14). There was no question that the Army's policy had been to make detention so uncomfortable that the prisoners would prefer combat duty; the question now was whether the Continental Stockade had been so tough as to defeat the Army...
...Round Temple, dividing point between Hindu and Moslem sections of the city, tough, stocky Commissioner Harold Edwin Butler's Buttercups (blue-and-yelow uniformed police) tried to bar the way. When paraders squatted on the pavements, the law hurled tear gas. Up came the Hindus with flailing bamboo lathis (traditionally a police weapon against demonstrators). Police lines broke under their charge, scattered Buttercups were beaten. Pop bottles and stones came flying from housetops together with buckets of water. Barricades of flaming trees were thrown across streets. False alarms called firemen to remote sections where gangs of goondas (hooligans) attacked...
...this sadly cynical surgeon and a bit of international flotsam named Joan Madou. It is also a story of the vicissitudes of the emigres and Ravic's murder of the Gestapo chief who had tortured him in Germany. The story of the emigres succeeds because of its tough, bold, unsentimental treatment of vast pathos. The story of Ravic's revenge succeeds because of Novelist Remarque's skill in presenting a cunning, brutal murder as an act of justice. The love story fails because Joan, an unpleasant character at best, is never quite real. When she is accidentally...