Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year to the union treasury.) Some Republicans howled that the President sent troops in to haul out obstinate employers, but was humble before Labor Boss Petrillo. Some suspected that Mr. Roosevelt was readying up a crackdown on Mr. Petrillo, to show that the White House could be tough with labor...
...Assembly, to which all nations will belong, will have even less power than expected. It may debate broad problems but should not "on its own initiation make recommendations" on any tough problem up before the Security Council...
...they get by Dartmouth as expected, McKeever and his yearlings will still have seven tough games to go for an unbeaten season. Two of the seven future opponents are especially formidable...
...reasons why troops found it hard to be tough were well put by the late C. E. Montague, British essayist, who wrote of the Allied occupation after World War I: "How can you hate the small boy who stands at the farm door visibly torn between dread of the invader and deep delight in all soldiers as soldiers? ... It is hopelessly bad for your Byronic hates if you sit through whole winter evenings in the abhorred foe's kitchen and the abhorred foe grants you the uncovenanted mercy of hot coffee and discusses without rancor the relative daily yields...
Million-Dollar Gamble. But tough, Norwegian-born Captain Roen, 56, a seafarer since he was 14, disagreed. If someone wanted the ship badly enough to pay a good price for the job, he would show that the biggest freighter that ever sank in the Great Lakes could be salvaged. No private concern was interested. The War Department, anxious to get the channel cleared, made a deal with Roen. The deal: if he could raise the ship, he could have her; if not, he must chop her off at his own expense to allow 35 feet of clear water over...