Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flying Fortress gunners give a cheerfully tough, somewhat jumbled ac count of the Eighth Air Force. More detailed books have been written on the same subject, but none more alive...
...Incredibly Old." The son of a Jewish tradesman, Freud came of tough stock-his mother died at 93, when he himself was in his 70s. For 16 years before his death he endured the constant pain, intermittent surgery and increasing speech impairment which were the results of cancer of the mouth. When the Nazis invaded Austria, they allowed Freud to leave the country, but not until they had seized his psychoanalytical publishing house, "the institute, and the Clinic, lock, stock and barrel...
...newsmen that Knight had purchased an opportunity; to go down the middle between the New Dealish Times and Sun and the arch-conservative Tribune and Moscow-scared Herald-American. Unbiased news, nonpartisan, liberal editorials were the foundations of Knight success in Akron, Miami, Detroit. There would be plenty of tough competition in Chicago, but Jack Knight has a habit of winning...
Slowly the U.S. got to know Tom Dewey better. The U.S. as a whole learned that he was cool, precise, tough-minded, with a passion for neatness (he usually fastens both buttons of his single-breasted suits), a meticulous regimen (he rarely eats a heavy meal), an experienced facility in avoiding traps set by hostile newsmen, a firm determination to say exactly what he wanted to say when he wanted...
...official, irrepressible G.I. weekly, complained that all too many soldiers were being disappointed by needlessly broken entertainment schedules. Citing cases, Roundup said that Joel McCrea, "large, husky, over-six-foot male," called off his announced 60-day tour in Cairo when he heard that "CBI is tough." Paulette Goddard left the theater six days early when she "reportedly was taken ill." Pledged to 120 days on the CBI circuit, Joe E. Brown "suddenly remembered a previous engagement in North Africa . . . decamped after...