Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle for Leyte was ending. It had been a tough battle-as tough as any previously fought by U.S. divisions, veterans of Attu and New Guinea, Kwajalein and Guam, Makin and New Britain. It had taken longer than expected, and it had taken more U.S. casualties. But it had paid greater dividends than U.S. war planners had counted on. After getting over their first surprise, the Japanese had kept on pushing reinforcements from other Philippine islands into Leyte, where they had no time to learn the terrain or to assemble a full quota of heavy weapons...
South Africa's Prime Minister had a tough fight on his hands. To a convention of his United Party in Bloemfontein, Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts denounced the Broederbond (League of Brothers) as a "dangerous, cunning, Fascist organization." Smuts ordered South African civil servants and state schoolteachers to resign Broederbond membership at once. His stern alternative: resign their Government jobs...
...week the Supreme Court of the U.S. unanimously agreed that Citizen Endo -and, by implication, any other loyal Japanese-American-has a right to live where she pleases. Justice Frank Murphy denounced "the unconstitutional resort to racism inherent in the entire evacuation program." But the court, frankly avoiding a tough constitutional issue in wartime, almost contradicted itself...
...anti-British blast: "The American people did not send their sons abroad to fight and die for the safety of Britain or the triumph of Russian influence." And in the House, Pennsylvania's squat, aggressive Leon Gavin cried: "It's about time for Uncle Sam to get tough with Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden...
...five days of vigorous debates the conference: 1) committed itself to a sweeping program to socialize land, banking, transportation, building, fuel, power; 2) demanded Dominion status for India, with immediate release of jailed Indian leaders. Tough talkers from the floor frequently overrode cautious advice from the platform...