Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small, shrewd Jimmy Byrnes, ex-Supreme Court Justice, ex-U.S. Senator, ex-Economic Stabilizer, it was the end of a tough, heart-breaking job. At 66, he had been at his desk seven days a week, had flown to Europe on a mission for Franklin Roosevelt last fall, had made another trip to the Yalta Conference. Now, with V-E day in sight, he felt his part of the job was done. He wanted a rest...
...Boss. Grey, owlish Fred Vinson had rounded out less than a month as the new Federal Loan Administrator when he was called over to step into Byrnes's shoes, and another tough assignment. But the 55-year-old former Kentucky Congressman was well equipped for the hot-corner spot. He had built a reputation as a skillful Government servant, able to resist pressures, capable of untangling economic snarls with the shrewd persistence of a veteran poker player...
...Ninth Army's 83rd Division fought into Hamm, which has the biggest rail marshalling yards in Germany, and three days later cleared the city. Elsewhere even the fighting for villages was tough. The Germans launched small but savage counterattacks with tanks, fought off the U.S. attacks with dug-in tanks and self-propelled guns. In the Siegen area, on the south side of the pocket, they put in ten counterattacks...
...every Viennese was willing to die in a Nazi delaying action. The Russians reported risings of anti-Nazis within the city. Transport workers refused to unload trains. There were reports that assassins had killed Vienna's defender, tough SS General Sepp Dietrich, trusted commander of Hitler's elite bodyguard troops...
After him came Michael Foot, 31, a tough, cocksure radical who knew how to argue warmly and reason coldly. He and Beaverbrook got along fine for a time, singing and drinking together. In expiation for his Tory flirtations, Michael Foot anonymously wrote two books that damned Tories as appeasers at best, fascists at worst. Beaverbrook put him out to pasture, in the lush acres of his morning paper, the Daily Express (circulation: 3,000,000). Eight months later, Foot booted his ?3,000 job, went to work for the Laborite Daily Herald...