Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whose doom-voiced newscasters now had only an endless procession of good news to read. For the U.S. people, rightly or wrongly, but reading what seemed like obvious signs, were convinced that the end of the war in Europe is but a matter of months. They knew it was tough; they were not lying down on their jobs; their own sons were "out there" fighting, and perhaps dying, but as Americans they figured it this...
Tacho took part in one skirmish, was defeated, thereupon gave himself the title of General. His fluency in English, which he speaks with a tough accent, won him a job as an interpreter for the sharp-tongued Liberal politician, José Maria Moncada. When Moncada became President in 1929, Tacho became Subsecretary of Foreign Affairs...
...Stakman, 59, is perhaps the world's No. 1 expert on cereal diseases. On a 40-acre laboratory plot at Minnesota, he cultivates almost every plant disease known to the Midwest. There are thousands upon thousands. Stake's object is to develop tough new varieties of wheat and other cereals that will resist these diseases. But no sooner does he defeat one disease than a brand-new one, almost invariably, breaks out. Thirty-five years of such battling has convinced Stake that, for all of science, the best man can ever hope to do against bugs and plant...
...their comments. The chapter, which concerns original sin, precipitated a warm discussion. Municipal Judge Daniel Shoemaker contended that from the legal point of view a person is innocent until proved guilty, that therefore a newborn baby cannot be sinful. Said David Lewis after the meeting: "That chapter is a tough one. But it made some of those guys think; it is the first time some of them have used their brain cells for a long time...
Ants in the Plant. Mosquito's first transmitter (Noumea) opened up last February. Built and operated by Major Purnell Gould, peacetime manager of Baltimore's Station WFBR, and his staff of former commercial radiomen, the network at first had tough going. "Juice ants" fancied the insulation around the transmitter wiring and ate it, causing short circuits; microphones had to be blown out twice a day with bellows because fungus sprouted from them. AFRS's biggest single problem was getting receiving sets for its soldier audience. Furthermore, ordinary radio sets were good for only about four months...