Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cattle. The feeders were saving expensive feed by selling their stock, and in their hurry to get out from under, they were shipping animals that averaged 40 to 65 lbs. less than 1944's marketing weights. Should the feed-lot operators trim their herds too sharply, the gristle-tough outlook would be for something close to a meat famine this summer...
...picked up by U.S. transports. But when a Jap force keeps the transports from landing, their anabasis begins. They are now faced with a march through some 150 miles of steep-slanted, many-rivered jungle, slithering full of the enemy. From here on, things are really-and realistically-tough...
Dumbarton Oaks. "... A conference of United Nations should be called at San Francisco . . . April 25, 1945, to prepare the charter of [a world security] organization." The Big Three said that they had settled the tough problem raised by Russia's previous insistence that any major power should be able to veto any action against itself, withheld the details of agreement until France and China have been consulted. The date chosen for the San Francisco conference may be significant: April 24, the day before the conference opens, is the last on which Russia may legally end its neutrality pact with...
...county regiments-the Dorsets, Devons, Durhams, York and Lanes-and the Scots and Welsh Border regiments marveled at this gaffer of the old Army, admired him in the usual unprintable phrases, gave him a cheer. They had fought their way through mountain jungles; tough fighting lay ahead before the last Jap would be driven from Burma. But they were in lush valleys...
...hearted UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) had a tough job getting Latin American pledges of food for European countries wrecked by war (see INTERNATIONAL). Some Latin American Governments asked that their quotas be drastically reduced. Others offered inedibles, such as sodium nitrate from Chile or huaraches (sandals) from Mexico...