Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jesse Jones, it was now clear, could not be brushed off without a real White House struggle. Franklin Roosevelt, the gossips insisted, had returned to Washington after the election in a tough frame of mind. Determined to fire several subordinates, the President's suddenly stern eye fastened on Jesse Jones. At the first postelection Cabinet meeting, Mr. Roosevelt politely asked Jesse if he had any matters to bring up. Jesse did, and promptly began to rattle them off. While he was still reciting, it was said, Franklin Roosevelt blandly addressed the next man at the table. By the time...
...gossamer Christmas vision tantalized Canadian women. Real full-fashioned silk stockings, said Ottawa newspapers, might be on the store shelves before Christmas. A shipment of silk hose was coming from Brazil. But the stockings would be expensive, could not be sold unless Canada's tough Price Controller Donald Gordon gave permission to lift the price ceiling...
...guns and Spandaus which covered the ground with cross fire. They had a close call and were pretty shaken when they got back to our foxholes after having crawled 200 yards along a muddy ditch. One of them slumped into my hole, out of breath. I said: "A bit tough out there, huh?" "Tough," he replied, "it's bl-bl-bloody awful...
...having its face lifted last week, hoping to look more democratic when (& if) a Pan American Conference assembles to judge its case. Three moves came in rapid succession. Cabildo, nationalist and often pro-fascist daily, was suspended for eight days for denouncing as pro-U.S. the new, tough supervisor of German firms. Argentina Libre (Free Argentina), a strongly democratic weekly closed for more than a year, was allowed to appear again. It started off with a bang, featuring on its front page a cartoon of Adolf Hitler about to be sealed in his coffin. Inside were articles by three...
...lavish spender, Rose is also a tough bargainer. "Only a sucker," he once remarked of picture-buying, "pays the price asked." Accused of being "slow with a buck," Rose retorted: "Sure, but do you know anybody who is faster with a hundred thousand...