Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours I shove off on something very tough-an effort to photograph 24 hours in the life of a soldier under fire. I am afraid that I cannot say what really must be said. This hurts deeply, and I am scared...
...Airmen. Soon the Pacific command will be a full-fledged trinity. Ever since November 1944 the 21st Bomber Command, now bossed by tough, cigar-smoking Major General Curtis LeMay, has been an independent unit in the Pacific. It is a part of the Twentieth Air Force, commanded by General "Hap" Arnold and responsible only...
...Russians are tough, but they made a lot of concessions. Stalin wants to play ball. This world organization will go over big with the people. It may help keep the peace. And peace is what we want. If it fails, there are always the Army and the Navy...
Next to winning, John J. McGraw liked feuding. During his 30 years as manager, his rough, tough, smart New York Giants won ten National League pennants and seldom finished out of the first-division money. Knockdown, drag-out feuds brightened most of those 30 years...
...monumental opera, War and Peace (promised by Stalin to the Metropolitan Opera after a Soviet premiere) had a concert run-through last week at the Moscow Conservatory. An audience of professional musicians, squirming through the sceneryless nine scenes, vigorously applauded the classic melodies, found the unwieldy Tolstoyan libretto tough going and concluded that the opera was far from finished...