Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Hu had to abandon Yenan to save his northern flank. Then he raced westward to hold the Szechuan passes. An urgent call to roly-poly Governor Ma Hung-kwei of Ninghsia Province brought him two divisions of tough Moslem caval ry. In one of the Nationalists' few well-executed maneuvers, the Reds were boxed by superior force and fire power near Pao-chi, a river crossing on the way to Szechuan...
...knows from experience how rough Eddie used to be is Ben-Jones, a pretty rough guy himself. Arcaro, riding for someone else, sometimes crashed horses that Jones was training. Says Eddie: "He's known from Maine to Spain as a tough man. He'd get mad, but he'd cool out." In 16 years, between feuds, Arcaro has ridden just three horses...
...Tough as he is Arcaro has a few soft spots. Any tout or hustler around the track can usually work Eddie for "a double sawbuck." His mother telephoned him one day to say that she had lost her apartment and had no place to live. He hurried to Cincinnati, and bought her a $16,000 house...
...Tough. One important point was not quite decided. The lower court had carefully sidestepped the antitrust division's principal demand: force the producing companies to sell their theater holdings and divorce themselves entirely from film distribution. Instead the lower court merely ordered the companies to 1) stop buying theaters and 2) give independents a chance at first crack at topflight pictures by auctioning them off through competitive bidding. That order, said the Supreme Court, failed to strike at the core of the present cases. It sent the decision back to the lower court for a tougher ruling. To many...
...Sainted Sisters (Paramount) are daintily tough Veronica Lake and delicious Joan Caulfield. In flight from the New York police (circa 1895), they stop off for a con girls' holiday in a little town in Maine. They hole up with Barry Fitzgerald, the solidest down-Easter this side of Galway, and get busy fleecing the yokels...