Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Damascus became military headquarters for the Arab drive against Zionism after U.N. voted for partition. Syria's parliament last week voted a military conscription law. Tough-looking Arab warriors in battle dress and kaffiyas (headdresses), crowded the streets on leave from nearby Camp Qatana. Military police of the volunteer army set up standards of discipline unusual in Arab forces. One night last week a volunteer stepped into Freddie's bar (Freddie worked nine years in Detroit factories) to order a drink of arak, a fiery, licorice-flavored distillate of raisins. Two Arab MPs accosted him. "Aren...
...Newburgh (N.Y.) News, a tough little link in Frank Gannett's newspaper chain, was crusading against vice and gambling in its tough little town (pop. 31,883). When the News documented its case with pictures of locally sold policy tickets, a grand jury summoned News Editor Douglas V. Clarke and Reporter Charles L. Leonard, and wanted to know where the tickets came from...
...with one concession, a tough crossword puzzle...
Coal & Chicks. If there was, tough old John C. Kehoe wasn't saying. Son of a coal miner, he picked slate in Pennsylvania's hard-coal country for 45^ a day. As a boy, instead of shooting marbles, he was fighting game chicks-against other kids in Pittston, Pa. He became the hard-fisted political boss of Luzerne County and owner of half a dozen coal mines, but never gave up cockfighting. The big difference between Kehoe and the 150,000 other people who fight roosters in the U.S. is that he crows about...
...that seems to excel a human's, the grey came back. Almost 40 minutes later, he won over the red. Next morning, another of Kehoe's grey muffs came back from the dead to clinch first prize ($7,000) of the Orlando tournament for Kehoe. Glowed rough, tough old John Kehoe: "Cockfighting has added ten years to my life...