Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they droned off over Japan, others were left behind to fly CAP (combat air patrol). And on the bridge of the Third Fleet's flagship was the tough, stubby seadog whom the Japanese mortally hate & fear. "Bull" Halsey was on the prowl...
...Warm-Up. Annapolis left less of its conservative impress on Halsey than on most of its graduates. He acquired less book learning than many, graduating two-thirds of the way down his class ('04), but he kept more of his individuality as a rough & tough scrapper, quick to make up his mind and fearless in action. He became the kind of man around whom legends grow...
...slackness or poor work at sea he roars in the voice that has made him renowned as the tough guy of the fleet. But his junior officers and enlisted men know that Bull Halsey is no sundowner: under the bushy eyebrows The Old Man's eyes gleam with good humor. The Bull is a softie, and his men love him as they love few other admirals...
...Army and sent battle-tried Ike Eichelberger to clean up the rest of the Philippines to the south. How well Team No. 2 had done its job was seen last week as the 24th and 31st Divisions were liquidating isolated pockets of enemy resistance on Mindanao-last of several tough nuts cracked by the Eighth Army...
Skeptics wondered if he was too mild-mannered. But Mel convinced himself that he had to be "as tough a bastard as his players forced him to be." He has been tough enough since, but has not be come a managerial giant. A third, eighth and fifth place finish in three years is not much of a record. The club's current collapse is all but a managerial disaster...