Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there will remain such folk as Jack Cornwall, laugh man of his company, who with others believes that "things are tough and the world can always appreciate a laugh to its ultimate advantage." Naylor Cragin, however, reports that Jack has acquired another German tome and secretly sympathizes with his next term roommate...
...some of the pillboxes the advancing soldiers found unarmed German families, refugees from the bomb-torn cities, cooking their meals. In others tough, battlewise German soldiers fought to the end. Troops of the gth Division had to storm the moats of a picturesque 14th-Century castle to dig out one stubborn Nazi formation...
...Above all, they rely on their island position and their fertility. Said the missionary: "Japan's population is increasing at the rate of 2,000,000 a year, which means 1,000,000 fresh troops annually. . . . The 3,000,000 recruits acquired since 1941 are as well-trained, tough and fanatical as the old. . . . The Japanese will not collapse suddenly. They still think they can get away with their spoils...
Lauren Bacall, newest of sultry cinema sirens (To Have and Have Not), arrived in Manhattan for a well-timed "rest," topped the tabloids with a well pressagented romance. Her leading man, Cinema Tough Guy Humphrey Bogart, happened to be staying at the Hotel Gotham, where she put up. To swarming newsmen, she confided: "Bogey is a real swell guy. We have a lot of fun together. . . ." Bogart, currently separated from his wife, Mayo ("Sluggy") Methot, got in character to pronounce his opinion of Lauren: "Baby's . . . a real Joe." Bogey and Baby have just completed their second picture...
Westerners carried five beans in the wheel - five cartridges in their guns. Some - mighty unpopular - "were so tough they'd growed horns and was haired over." Their gun battles were called corpse and cartridge occasions', the aftermath "looked like beef day at an Injun agency." A bad man was a curly wolf, a bandido, cat-eyed, or just a plain killer. Sometimes a curly wolf could stay on the dodge, among the willows, or lookin' over his shoulder for quite a spell. But once caught, his fate was sealed. With a rope around his neck...