Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even with a Son of Heaven as his helper, MacArthur's job will be tough. But, whatever happens, it will be tougher on the Japanese than on the victors...
Equally important is the Prince's standing as a professional soldier (a rough, tough cavalryman). This might be handy in persuading diehard front commanders to lay down their arms...
News of an amazingly tough new cotton came from New Orleans last week. Some cloth and thread were buried in a soil bed alive with fungi and other microorganisms. Ordinary cotton would have decayed within a week. This material, after six months to a year in the ground, was almost as good...
...Army planes sprayed gallons of DDT on the New Jersey salt marshes, habitat of the famed Jersey mosquito. Officials were alarmed because the DDT killed fish, and they found the mosquitoes, multiplied by heavy July rains, tough customers. But by week's end 10,000 acres had been, sprayed and millions of mosquitoes had been killed...
This week at Wrigley Field, Grimm & Co. face the first of a dozen tough games with the second-place Cardinals. If the Cubs come through, there is little chance of their being stopped short of the World Series...