Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gear." She thought the President "must be a very sound sleeper as well as a very tolerant father." Kay cornered Mike Reilly, boss of the Secret Service contingent guarding Roosevelt. "Here you are on duty," she chided, "and half of your men are tiddly." Mike replied: "We're tough, Kay. Have...
...unimportant activities--and thus to cut the right corners. You will find that most people, both in the student body and the faculty, are understanding. But nobody around here is going to take you by the hand. The College is trying to build what President Conant calls "the tough-minded idealist." So make your own way and learn to like...
...schools had one common complaint: too many students. In many a U.S. city and town, schools would operate in two shifts. Youngsters would be going to school in cafeterias, churches, and prefabs -and no immediate relief in sight. Said a Detroit school official: "It will be tough through...
Died. Hamar Greenwood, first Viscount Greenwood of Holbourne, 78, Canadian-born British industrialist, last Chief Secretary for Ireland (1920-22): in London. A tough fighter against Irish independence, Lord Greenwood employed the Black & Tans in an attempt to crush the rebellious Sinn Feiners, for years after his retirement lived in fear of assassination...
...verse is concerned, are certainly minor, still echoing the big, pretentiously philosophical tones for which his poetic equipment is essentially unsuited, but here & there MacLeish is at home again with the private emotions that he can make ring true. Chief among such emotions is something that some synthetically tough "intellectuals" have decried as nostalgia, as if the muses were not forever daughters of memory, or as if there were something necessarily weak about missing other times, places, or people...