Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rare in Soviet Russia is a living ex-chief of the political police. Last week Russia had one-tough, professorial Marshal Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria, 46. He stepped out as head of the N.K.V.D,, but was apparently still in Stalin's high command...
With threats and pleas, he has held the C.I.O. together. When the Auto Workers were set to rescind the wartime no-strike pledge in 1944, Murray stemmed the tide with a speech delivered under heavy emotion. When occasion demands, he can be tough. When Sidney Hillman began to show signs of getting too independent with his Political Action Committee, Phil Murray cracked down with an order that P.A.C. must operate through the 39 regional C.I.O. offices, which he controls...
...Street (Diana Productions-Universal) is an ambitious melodrama bristling with fine directorial touches and expert acting. Its trouble is its painfully obvious story. Producer-Director Fritz Lang, frankly trying to repeat the success he had with The Woman in the Window, has used all the stock props of rough, tough melodrama in his new thriller. There is the sneering, dame-slapping heel of a hero (Dan Duryea), the bad girl (Joan Bennett) who asks to be slapped around and seems to enjoy it, and the frightened, henpecked little middle-aged cashier (Edward G. Robinson) with a simple-minded...
Major Needles made a survey of 200 NP cases. They were all seasoned field soldiers with records of serious emotional instability. All had been in a tough, 60-day stretch of fighting before they finally broke down with battle jitters. Hospitalization let some odd cats out of the. psychic bags: ¶ A private, a rifle company runner, was a Doubting Thomas. He doubted himself, his friends, his own judgment and abilities. Eventually he stopped caring what happened to him, and acted with exceptional bravery because he began to look on death as a pretty comfortable state...
...Tomorrow. The most encouraging sign for Christian Germany, said Barth, had been the stiff-necked resistance of the Confessional Church leaders who stubbornly continued throughout the war to pray for peace instead of victory, aided the Jews, consequently kept themselves in constant hot water with the Nazis. In this tough nucleus Barth saw hope for the rebirth of German Christianity. The new, united Evangelical Church, formed last August at the Treysa conference, was a good beginning. But Calvinist Barth looked with less favor on those conservative churchmen who were more interested in getting back to the good old pre-Hitler...