Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes, who was born on the wrong side of Charleston's famed King Street, still remembers how to talk tough. Last week...
Although the Crimson has run up five wins and scored 41 runs, it has fallen down against the one really tough opponent that was on the schedule, that being Holy Cross. There is no doubt that the Crusaders are one of the best teams around, but it is also evident that the local nine could have done much better than it did. In the first game with the Purple the Crimson blew the game on errors; in the second it failed to make the most of the opportunities offered. The five victories registered have been over weak...
...another by leading the Yorktown's air group during the Gilberts invasion. That was when he brought his plane back despite 200 wounds, then insisted on debarking from the ambulance and visiting the Pearl Harbor Officers' Club "to show those kids it's not so tough to be shot up." Richard Crommelin, '28, had started gathering medals even earlier: a Navy Cross for the Coral Sea, another for Midway...
...Most portentous Cabinet appointment: Emanuel ("Manny") Shinwell to be Minister of Mines. To him will fall the tough task of nationalizing and modernizing Britain's antiquated coal pits. It will be a pleasure. Minister Shinwell belongs in Minister of Health Bevan's left wing. He is ruthless, knowledgeable, fearless, dour. In Parliament, he has boxed the ears of an M.P. whose opinions he disliked. He hopes to head the Labor Party some...
...atom's energy, "the basic power of the universe," is contained in the nucleus. To release that energy, this unimaginably small object must be "split" or "smashed." For would-be atom-smashers, the atomic nucleus thus became a target. The problem was to find a bullet small and tough enough to blast it, and a gun powerful and accurate enough to aim that bullet...