Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold black coffee), picks up a couple of sandwiches that his wife has made for his lunch, and catches the 5:10 streetcar from his home in West Allis, a Milwaukee suburb. From 6:20 a.m. until 3 p.m. Brand works at a job which many people would call tough, unpleasant and underpaid...
...Rough, tough Louis Ruppel limped into the Manhattan offices of Collier's and cast a sardonic glance around. Most of new Editor Ruppel's worried staff, who had heard about his temper, his Anglo-Saxon expletives and "off-with-their-heads" methods, half-expected to be eaten alive. Editor Ruppel, though still recovering from a spinal operation, did not entirely disappoint them...
...Tough Tiger...
...comedy. Their one redeeming feature is that they do seem to have affection for their mother. This hardly outweighs the rudeness with which they treat her suitor on-stage and the crimes they have committed off-stage. Even as criminals, they are not very interesting, and the "tough-guy with the one soft spot" angle has never amsued me. I think it may be that I have more concern for their mother than they do. I know I don't share Mrs. Gibbons' attitude (and the writers') towards her three juvenile delinquents, Ma Gibbons' love-blindness, the probable cause...
...Command Decision" was a good book and a better play; Hollywood has thrown in just enough stars and situations to kill most of its effectiveness. The movie follows its predecessors pretty closely, detailing an Air Force General's fight against top brass and public pressure to complete a tough bombing operation. He is then kicked upstairs out of his job with the mission incomplete; his successor must make the command decision of whether or not to continue the costly operation...