Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What we offer in explanation of this miracle is that Governor Dewey is first of all an organizer and second, as a correspondent of the Wall Street Journal has phrased it, a very tough guy. Mr. Dewey did not find himself alone and drifting in national politics. He had already surrounded himself with as able a group of specialists, a personal cabinet, as contemporary politics affords. . . . Having known them and watched their development over the years-it is 14 years since Mr. Dewey began his public career-we are glad to testify to their quality. They would prove an unusual...
Brigadier Lord Lovat, tall, tough, handsome leader of British Commando troops, was back in England last week, a bit bunged up from the Normandy fighting, and correspondents at last could tell the story of how Lovat and his men kept a promise on Dday...
Morning came and the Commando-men splashed ashore, each carrying his 60-lb. pack and wearing a green beret (they scorn the steel helmet as a needlessly heavy encumbrance). They skirted beach mines, passed pillboxes, dodged gunfire, and started the long, tough fight inland...
Overall boss of the Army Service Forces and of the greatest military-supply job in history is tough, kinetic Lieut. General Brehon Somervell. Lutes is his director of plans and operations, the man who blueprints the ASF's myriad functions...
...Germans kept them in units no larger than a platoon, watched them carefully, used them to man prepared positions, where they did a generally tough job of fighting. A relative few were Nazi-indoctrinated, like the fanatically pro-German, anti-Allied quisling troops mustered in every occupied country...