Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tough Politico Charlie Halleck knew that the issues were not all that black or white. Key Democrats of the labor committee, in voting out the bill that he called "watered down," had marched uphill into the muzzles of Big Labor's biggest guns in one of the 86th Congress' bloodiest unsung battles. And it was Charlie Halleck himself who had provided six extra votes to push them over...
...trying to strengthen the bill, Halleck and his allies will gain strength from the same argument that Rayburn used on labor's Meany: the American people mean business about labor racketeering, and they want a tough bill. The only question between them is how tough...
...Khrushchev insisted on making an impromptu inspection of one of Poland's corn-growing cooperative farms. As Khrushchev and Polish Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka climbed out of their black limousine, Western correspondents (whom Khrushchev jovially called "my sputniks") confidently started to follow them. They were roughly shouldered back by tough Polish secret policemen...
...ostrich egg), and often accuse him of what they consider heinous culinary sins: he has been known to dip breaded cutlets in gravy (making a soggy crust), mix fresh cream with Madeira (which makes the cream run), and boil beef after searing it in a pan (making the meat tough). But Der Fernsehkoch has a ready answer: "As an actor, I know what goes over...
...movie is grounded in muddled mythology; the scriptwriter seems to get Hercules mixed up with Samson, the Amazons with the ladies of Lemnos. But no matter. Few Amazons ever looked better, especially in a scene filmed against the background of an obviously modern cemetery, where one of the big, tough gals explains that this is where visiting men are buried "when we kill them after the mating season." The good guys fight the bad; Hercules topples pillars on horses and men, breaks iron chains as if they were Zippers and routs an army singlehanded. "If this picture had a star...