Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week a tough-minded U.S. diplomat was hard at work in one of World War II's toughest diplomatic posts. Major General Patrick Jay Hurley, ramrod-backed and handsome at 61, had already been acting as U.S. Ambassador to China for four weeks. Now Franklin Roosevelt sent his appointment to the Senate...
...advance would be along the gap's one main road, again found themselves bypassed, surrounded in pockets. Leclerc's tanks brushed through a shell of resistance, reached Alsace's capital (where children cheered them in German), ran into shelling from across the Rhine and a tough fight at the city's two main bridges...
...Streets Are Guarded (by Laurence Stallings; produced by John C. Wilson). Twenty years ago Playwright Stallings co-authored the tough, lusty What Price Glory?, the best American play about World War I. The Streets Are Guarded, a play about World War II, tells a fuzzy story about a heroic marine who pulls off a perilous sortie against the Japs. With a fever-ridden fanatically religious pharmacist's mate acting as Greek chorus, it seems throughout to symbolize a modern miracle. But what it says at the end is that such "miracles" are the everyday stuff of soldiering...
...Proved His Point. The man who runs this airway is tough, gruff Brigadier General Lawrence G. Fritz, onetime operations vice president for the T.W.A. When he was A.T.C.'s operations chief in Washington, he used to assert: "The North Atlantic . . . can be flown both east and west on regular schedule in winter as well as summer...
...MacArthur had to have men if he was going to carry on his New Guinea campaign. The malaria-ridden men of the 32nd were isolated to be cured. The rest of the Division licked its wounds and waited-until lean, tough Major General William H. Gill, now their commander, stood them up and proclaimed that he was going to put the outfit together again. A year later the 32nd was back...