Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee proved that if there ever was a free-lancer named George Crosley, he had an extremely tough time of it. A search of the Library of Congress' extensive catalogues showed that one G. Crosley had had a book, of poems published in 1905 (when Chambers was four years old) and one G. E. Crosley, a medical doctor, had written a pamphlet on ultraviolet light in 1936. There was no record of a "George Crosley" having broken into print any time, anywhere during Chambers' lifetime...
...things over. It had been three months since he renounced his U.S. citizenship to underline his enthusiasm for world government (TIME, June 7). After a talk with his sister last week he explained why he might come back to the U.S. (the State Department will probably not be too tough about it): "It is not my purpose to create doubt and confusion...
Airmen, their heads higher & higher in the skies, got a word of warning last week. Dr. Samuel Gelfan of the Yale University School of Medicine explained that the pressurized cabin, which has solved many of the problems of high-altitude flying, has in turn created a new and equally tough problem: explosive decompression. The trouble can be caused either by a leak in the tightly sealed cabin or by a sudden failure of the pressurizing equipment...
...complaint. White had refused to let Kaiser set foot on his new property until after midnight Aug. 31 (when Republic's interim lease expired). WAAdministrator Larson confirmed this. White, he said, had told him: "It's going to give me a lot of pleasure to make it tough for those bastards...
...competition is tough. Black Diamond Steamship Corp., a veteran on the Lowlands run, is also out for subsidies, and U.S. Lines and Waterman Steamship Corp. are opposing federal aid to their competitors. But Bernstein is in a fighting mood. His maxim, coined long ago: "All business is a kind of war and you stand a fair chance of winning if you stick to your guns...