Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mucci's men were a tough breed. Formerly they had been a pack field artillery unit whom Mucci himself had trained as combat troops two years ago in New Guinea. Mucci was a West Pointer, son of a Bridgeport, Conn, horse dealer. In command of his Filipinos: Major Robert Lapham, who had been fighting with the guerrillas since before the fall of Corregidor. Mucci's force had suffered some casualties: three wounded, 27 killed...
This week Governor Baldwin found a statesmanlike way out of the wrangle. On his weekly radio report to the people, he announced that he would appoint short, tough, salty Admiral Thomas Charles Hart, onetime commander of the Asiatic Fleet. Registered as neither Republican nor Democrat, Tommy Hart will presumably be satisfactory to both sides...
During his stay in the bare, barred "juvenile tank" of Seattle's King County Jail, 16-year-old John Emberg often wished he were dead. He was a dull, shy, slack-chinned boy. When a tough red head named Chuck Thomas forced other boys to fight him, he backed away, posturing timidly. When he was beaten with shoes and belts, he wept...
...books, all such political mind-molders have been replaced with references to soil, crops, etc. But the Subcommission left the really tough job of Axis textbook revision still to be done. Lacking time to provide new chapters explaining why Fascism is bad and democracy good, it simply deleted all references to political and social events after World...
Half the class was crestfallen when neither Keith (C.I.O.) Richards nor Irv Wellings could pick a R.R. freight, car incident from their vast storehouse of experience. Things are tough all over. Yet Jack Trumbauer can still have girl friends up from the City by the pairs. Whata...