Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large the Junker were perhaps the most able, intelligent and disciplined single group of men on the continent of Europe. Certainly they were the most ruthless, tough-minded, coldblooded. They needed to be. For never before had their caste so squarely faced the prospect of extermination...
Correspondent Gene Cook waited in the B. & O. yards until 7:30 a.m. to hop aboard the eastbound Marine train and ride all the way to New York with it (he bunked with Lieut. Camille Tamucci, the tough guy in charge who kept dreaming of mountains of spaghetti all the way home...
...week. Two nights after frail, professorial Dr. Ramón Grau San Martin was elected President, his Vice President-elect Dr. Raúl de Cardenas* trotted nervously across a shadowy lawn where U.S. Ambassador Spruille Braden was dining with friends. Drawing the Ambassador aside, he spluttered that rough, tough General Manuel Benitez, Chief of the National Police, planned to seize President Fulgencio Batista, prevent Grau from assuming the Presidency by setting up a military dictatorship...
Teachers who go to Ethiopia will find a healthful climate (most of Ethiopia is a high plateau), a great affection for the U.S.-and a tough language, Amharic. But an attempt is under way to reduce" its 200 odd characters to 90, make typewriters feasible. English, taught in the few schools which Ethiopia still possesses, has already replaced French as a second language...
...sinecure; 55-year-old Fred Gurley will earn every cent of his $60,000-a-year salary. The Santa Fe has a tough year ahead. Its Western divisions are snowed under by a record wheat crop...