Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...65th birthday party Harry Truman looked and acted like a man who had few qualms about the future. Congress was acting up again (see The Congress) and he still had four tough years ahead in the White House. But at 65, the President seemed to be in better shape than when he took office four years ago. "The President," proclaimed the White House physician, Brigadier General Wallace Graham, "is as close to being an iron man as anyone I know...
...still stood, untouched, on the books. While the fight shifted to the Senate, the House Labor Committee would try to figure a way out of the Administration's dilemma: how to toughen up the old Wagner Act enough to win back Southern support, without making it so tough that Northern Democrats would rebel...
During the first years, however, Munch's critical treatment probably won't be too gentle. Most Boston critics are just as provincial as Boston society. For 25 years they have been accustomed to one way of doing things, and the shift will be a tough one. Already, snide little references have appeared in Boston papers. Rudolph Elie of the Herald, for instance, fears that absolute disaster will result if Munch should dare to reseat the Orchestra...
...lacrosse team will meet its last creampuff today before banging into a row of really tough opponents...
...Been Tough...