Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next person to step into line commented: "That was pretty tough." But the USES interviewer replied: "Oh, no. You ought to hear some of the others...
What China Gets. In his bargaining with Stalin, China's Soong of course had few real military chips to put on the table. But on major issues he did have U.S. support. When Soong talked tough, as he often did in the seven all-night conferences, Russia knew that Soong was not bluffing. Stalin, who likes straight talk, liked Soong...
...might also be a key to Private Citizen Cárdenas' political intentions. Many Mexicans hoped he would back a candidate. Cárdenas had been a tough cookie in dealing with the U.S. His candidate, if elected, would presumably be the same...
...first big job at 16, as the tenor of a trio which followed Bing Crosby and the Rhythm Boys into Hollywood's Cocoanut Grove in 1931. (Like Bing, he has never learned to read notes, but knows harmony from his trio days.) Tough times followed until he clicked with a one-song shot on Kate Smith's program. Since then, Tenor Smith has sometimes appeared in as many as 19 programs in one week. Among them were several variety shows for P & G, who reckoned that he would go over with housewives who tuned out the bobby...
...were independent merchants. Publishers told other employees that they were temporarily discharged for the duration of the strike, and entitled to no pay for standing by. It looked as if St. Louis publishers, alarmed by recent newspaper strikes in New York, Fort Wayne and Birmingham, had decided to get tough-with all the unionists in their employ...