Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President had recalled him for another tough job. He was sent as Ambassador to Vichy. He got along well with the aging Petain,* and acquired great personal contempt for another admiral-Darlan-to whom he referred privately as "Popeye the Sailor...
...German press attacked him again-while he delayed Vichy's final fall, supplied the State Department with valuable information and made the best of a tough job. He returned stricken with grief, bringing with him the body of his wife, Louise, who had died after an operation. A mournful, lonely man, he settled down to write his reports, willing to finish his life in retirement...
This Russian laissez faire surprised those who had expected the Russians to be tough on all Germans. Actually, the Russians were tough on a selected few; but ordinary Germans fared better in the Soviet zone than in U.S. and British areas. If this contrast redounded to the Soviet Union's benefit, so much the better for the Russians...
...clear explanation of U.S. procedure in Germany came last week from General Eisenhower's No. 1 deputy for the occupation, tough-minded Lieut. General Lucius Du Bignon Clay. Said...
Chocolate Drop, a 130-ft. reddish-brown mound, was another tough obstacle on the way to Shuri. For six days the 77th Infantry Division fought seesaw battles for the top, and finally won it. The Japs also counterattacked Conical Hill and clung to positions on the south slope, barring access to the west coast port of Yonabaru. On the east coast, Marine patrols found Naha a stinking, corpse-littered ruin...