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Word: toughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anti-labor publications have magnified the soda pop angle in order to discredit Detroit labor, without the magnificent achievements of whom the United Nations would be in a tough spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 26, 1944 | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

...have no direct word from Bob Sherrod on Saipan. Here's hoping he is not having as tough a time as he did on the beaches of Tarawa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 26, 1944 | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

...dinner was at London's famed Claridge's Hotel. Cocktails were sipped; all those present, including three or four women, were in uniform. Major General Henry J. F. Miller, handsome, 53-year-old chief of the Ninth Air Force Service Command, was telling someone about the tough time he was having to get certain crucial supplies. The date promised, he said, was too late. Henry Miller was quoted as saying: "On my honor the invasion will come before June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Silence is Golden | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...Lean, tough and bull-voiced, Engineer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: By a Damsite | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

Deprived of his bitter social implications, the Ape bums and blasts his way through a rudderless melodrama. Deprived of his ferocious eloquence, thanks doubtless to censorship, he talks like a tough guy who is trying not to shock his grandmother. Deprived of his tragic ending, he becomes, in retrospect, a not very convincing sailor ashore. Unfortunately, his screen creators have tried to compensate for these deficiencies by making him funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 19, 1944 | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

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