Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LoBuono was Major General Albert E. Brown, who had been chief of the Ground Force Reinforcement Command. Brown, according to LoBuono, had told him that the treatment at the guardhouse was "too soft," and had told Defendant Smith: "You're not tough enough on these men. You're running a hotel, Sergeant...
...goings-on at St. Albans Naval Hospital on Long Island were enough to make any Navy captain blink. Sailors and marines were involved; so were WAVES and civilians. It was happening in phone booths, on the ladders, even in the middle of the corridors. To tough-minded Captain C. F. Behrens, executive officer, it was a matter for emergency action. He drafted a stern, four-paragraph memorandum: "Lovemaking and lollygagging are hereby strictly forbidden...
...forceful Spruille Braden marched up to an NBC microphone last week, gave some straight talk on what the U.S. was up to in Latin America. The U.S., boomed Braden, thought Uruguayan Foreign Minister Rodriguez Larreta's proposal for joint, tough measures against any American nation that violates "the elementary rights of man" was good stuff, "sound." That didn't mean, explained rugged Spruille, that the U.S. was going to "send the Marines anywhere." But neither would Uncle Sam sit around, hands in pockets, "while the Nazi-fascist ideology against which we fought a war endeavors to entrench itself...
About that note in Dec. 10 issue: When I have a highball or two I tell the truth about things. The truth, as you continually show in your pages, is tough. It is not then so much my talk that is tough as the stuff it deals with. But I'm not the town drunk. With the reputation you give me I'll be expected to drink everybody in Kansas City under the table...
...back to their Communist-dominated country. It had taken virtually all their money to buy the Erma's 36-ft. hull, to install an old marine engine, and equip her with sails and stores. The Erma was small but she was seaworthy. And the leader of the expedition, tough, blue-eyed Harri Pahlberg, was a master mariner. So was the first mate, leathery Arvid Kuun...