Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...situation in Washington. For four months West Pointer Clay, a hard-driving engineering officer and supply expert, had been Jimmy Byrnes's right-hand man in the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion. A stern believer in duty and principle, he had backed Byrnes on the so-called "tough war" measures (curfew, brownout, racing ban, etc.), had sternly maintained that the first & last job was to supply the fighting men. The result: some Washington officials thought he was too tough on civilians, wanted him sacked...
...Swoops. But after the armor had broken through this last crust, it had taken off in wide swoops over all the great road network. Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr.'s famed 4th Armored Division's Combat Commands A and B, led by the fabulously tough team of Lieut. Colonel Creighton Abrams Jr. and Major Harold Cohen, are expert in this type of war. In operations such as this penetration toward the German heart, the armor moves like a cross-country skier, sliding swiftly down roads, diagnosing the terrain on the fly. If an obstacle appears too difficult...
...dozen years, suave, fox-faced John J. Anthony has been dishing out glib, categorical advice-by-radio to people with tough personal problems. (Sample Anthonyism: "[I] have found that marriage as an institution is probably the most desirable human association.") Last week, Mr. Anthony had a tough professional problem...
United States begins with a British soldier and his girl watching a U.S. gangster movie. After the show, at a tea counter, the Tommy tells his girl that the tough talk, the chattering machine guns, the breakneck getaways are all true, that America is really like that; he read all about it in a crime magazine. Nearby a G.I. (played by Corporal Warren Bryan) sulks out loud: "Why, I've never even seen a gangster, never heard of anyone in our town who has. . . . That's not American but you can't tell them...
...boat, their shoulders festooned by a long sheetlike strip of white cloth. There are Japanese prisoners, by that fact presumably among the softest defenders of their island; and in their bleak, barrelbodied, flintlike power you will recognize if you never did before that the enemy is indeed tough. There is a closeup of a bullet-hole in flesh, at once as intimate and as impersonal as if it were your own wound, so new you cannot yet feel it. There is a shot made through the slot of a tank of a Japanese soldier trying to evade the machine...