Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facts about gripe No. 1: We have spent 24 months overseas. ... In that time we have been no closer to civilization than Guadalcanal. Understand, we are not complaining; we are just trying to show G.I. Joe that he isn't having too tough a time by a damn sight. We entertain no dreams of prolonged Stateside duty when & if we do return...
...many of his men it was now the third year of active fighting. Some of the soldiers now patrolling in the heights of the Apennines had landed in North Africa Nov. 8, 1942. They had been blooded in the African campaign, tempered in the attack on Sicily, pounded into tough, battlewise, battle-weary veterans in the painful crawl up the Italian boot. As the third year began there was still the hard prospect of another winter on the bitter soil of Italy...
...years, shrill, tough Florabel has been working on a no-quarter basis, is supposedly the first woman to be admitted to the rim of a Pacific Coast copy desk, is known to be equipped with a sulphurous vocabulary. She gets news in brusque, traditional police reporter fashion, chases ambulances at any hour, sticks her chin into any situation. Her writing is straight, sometimes awkward, always humorless...
...stations] are making money, and they now have a beautiful opportunity to get tough and raise their own standards...
Picking is only one of several tough problems in machine cultivation. Other devices used on the Hopson plantation...