Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a husband in the Army, and like many others had heard tales of dubious behavior by the American troops in this country. The few we had seen in a neighboring town seemed noisy, and either chewed Spearmint or oversize cigars, and rather resembled the film version of a "tough guy" in gangster films...
...Tribune was not alone in noting the power in the Democratic Party of Sidney Hillman, chairman of the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee (TIME, July 24). Delegates felt it, and so did the bosses, who were forced to scramble and sweat hard to head off P.A.C.'s tough, emotional though amateur drive for Henry Wallace...
Still the Weather. There were some reasons for the stoppage. The terrain was still tough for attack-but it will always be tough until the Allies can force a genuine breakthrough into the open country between Caen and Paris. The battleground was so restricted that German reconnaissance had ample warning of the push-but the battleground will always be restricted while the Allies remain bottled up on the Normandy peninsula. The weather was vile; dust-dry one day, bucketing rain the next two or three-but even the most loyal correspondents were weary of apologizing for the fighting weather...
...Army sulked. Its 26 colonels and generals, accustomed to power, feared that a civilian government would reduce their privileges. When they threatened a military coup Menéndez called them to the palace, cowed them with some tough talk...
Since A Passage to India first appeared, a small library of Indian fiction had been published. Much of it was brisk and readable. None of it attained the delicate, tough clarity of Forster's novel. Nor did any other English novelist, writing of India, possess Forster's unique talent -that of keeping his characters, their good & bad intentions, their hopes, fears and antagonisms, in a state of suspension so that their dilemma is timeless yet forever timely. No one who wanted to understand that great problem could afford to miss the reprint of Forster's novel...