Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Nationalist government, founded on the principle of apartheid (racial segregation), hates Great Britain and despises the British liberal tradition. It is a government run by and for the tough Afrikaans-speaking burgers who make up 60% of the Union's white population. A much-used Nationalist slogan: "One Country, One Flag, One Language" (Afrikaans...
While Greeks and Americans tended to blame each other for the "situation," the truth was that both were faced with a very tough military and political problem: How to destroy an enemy when his base in a "neutral" country is immune from attack...
...that country club in New Hampshire, they indoctrinate everyone into thinking just how tough he is," Coach Lamar told his listeners...
...boys," are rated the best football is in New England. They have backs to go inside, outside, and through the middle. And contrary to general opinion, they have a first-string line that is tough, and rough from...
...Randolph Hearst on Mr. Welles. Recognizing that he was Kane, Hearst has since allowed none of his papers to mention Welles and has forbidden at least one studio to touch his work. In a town that is totally dependent on publicity for its survival, such opposition has made it tough for Welles to make the kind of pictures he wants to make. He has made two others--Booth Tarkington's "The Magnificent Ambersons" and Eric Ambler's "Journey Into Fear"--which are still examples for Hollywood to emulate. He has appeared in other pictures from time to time...