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Word: toughs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, as the overloaded Tusk slid into the harbor of Hammerfest, Norway, almost all of the town's tough, seawise population was waiting on its fishing wharves to salute a feat of courage and seamanship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Voyage to Hammerfest | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Last week, in the arc-lighted ballroom of London's Claridge's Hotel, before a tough audience of some 200 newshawks and cameramen, the trim, grey-suited American told Britons some harsh truths - with a chaser of enthusiasm and hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Briefing for Washington | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...first phase of the Communist offensive in Finland was over. The Reds' carefully timed barrage of successive strikes had so far failed to paralyze the country's economy or to intimidate Premier KarlAugust Fagerholm's tough Social Democratic government. But the fight was not over. For the second phase of their drive, the Red strategists had held back some important reserves: Finland's 55,000 metalworkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Second Phase | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...Stop Falling Hair?" They are a hard bunch to live with when they lose. Last month, after losing a tough game in Philadelphia, a couple of Cardinals made the mistake of singing Moonlight and Roses while the team was riding the bus to the station. Said Eddie Dyer sharply: "If you've got to sing, wait until I get off this bus. I don't see anything to sing about." Things were different after they had taken a game from Cincinnati and learned that Brooklyn had blown one to Boston. They gave Doc Weaver, the club trainer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Man | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

When the panic of 1873 hit Lynn, Mass., Real Estate Agent Isaac Pinkham and his 54-year-old wife Lydia found themselves flat broke. Fumbling old Isaac was crushed, but his tough-willed Quaker wife rose to the occasion. As a girl, Lydia had been a fierce Abolitionist, and she had organized a society to debate slavery and female suffrage. Her response to the new challenge: bottling and selling a home medicine she had been using for years. Ingredients: a blend of herbs, including true-unicorn and pleurisy root, steeped and macerated in an 18% alcohol base (about as potent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Everybody's Grandmother | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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