Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Tojo, Koiso is a tough product of the same Kwantung Army which conquered Manchuria, a member of the same Young Officer group that started pulling the strings behind Japan's aggressive policies a decade and a half ago. But unlike Tojo, he is running no one-man show. Koiso's performers include...
Coming Through. From the day of their first action-in Italy-the 100th had one tough fight after another. The stocky, brown-skinned boys, with their curious Hawaiian English, showed themselves good shots, doggedly resistant in combat...
...action at Belvedere, for which the 100th was officially cited, the divisional commander had to commit the battalion sooner than expected, to outflank a tough German position. With little artillery support the Nisei cut behind the position of some 500 Germans, knocked it to pieces, killed, wounded and captured 271 Germans...
...created to bring together all the Marine divisions for the final assaults against Japan. Last week Admiral Nimitz announced that tough, kindly Lieut. General Holland M. Smith had been given command of Fleet Marine Forces of the Pacific...
...Only the people scurrying along the streets looked dead and gray and driven. They were warmly dressed, they looked well fed, but still as they passed by they looked helpless and fragile and faceless as dry leaves, blown along the gutter by a gust of wind. It's tough on people to live in a time of too many changes, I was thinking...