Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Death. The task also calls for patience, understanding, an ability to show Germany's authoritarians that democrats can be efficient. In his early approach to a tough job, General Clay seemed to meet the requirements...
...book is a text (some 30,000 words) to some 160 of his pictures. It throws sharp light on cartoons which are serious and gay, ribald and sentimental, tough, touching and bitter-the best cartoons to come...
...headquarters on a Guam hilltop, Major General Curtis Emerson LeMay added up the results of three months' massive B-29 attacks on Tokyo. Tough-minded, realistic Curt LeMay claimed nothing of which he could not be sure. The things of which he could be sure...
This much was already on the record: Ozawa was tough and aggressive, but above all he was air-minded - for 25 years he had boosted the cause of Japanese naval aviation. Tokyo itself supplied another reason why Ozawa was chosen: he had "thoroughly familiarized himself with surface special-attack [i.e., suicide] tactics...
...roads faced one other tough situation: for 1945 they would need 60,000,000 ties, but production at its current rate indicated they would get only 30,000,000. Ties have to last longer...