Word: toughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost visibly and audibly gnashing their teeth, the Communists denounced the West-sector elections as "illegal" because of "fraud and terror." They blocked mail deliveries across the East-West line.* They put East Berlin's fire department under their tough police chief, Paul Mark-graf, to make sure that it would not go to any non-Communist fires. They set up new restrictions against automotive traffic, and even withdrew railway cars which had served West Berlin for garbage removal...
...park of the Pardo Palace, outside Madrid, where Madrilenos like to spend sunny Sundays, tough olive trees wilted in the drought. In the palace, walled in and surrounded by army barracks, pudgy Dictator Francisco Franco worked all week on the 16-billion peseta ($1,460,000,000 at the official rate) budget for 1949. About one-third of it would go to the army...
Organized opposition is ruthlessly suppressed, but no positive effort is made to remold the tough Spanish character. Private criticism is heard everywhere; it is amazingly bold and seems to go unpunished...
...silver-toothed Hu, pointing to some pillars of smoke a couple of miles ahead. "Chen Yi's sixth column and some of Liu Po-cheng's troops are. throwing up defense lines between here and Huang Wei's Twelfth Army Group." There were 20 or more tough miles still to go for a junction with the encircled Huang...
...twelve feet tall. They had scrapped their flying apparatus because they didn't need it; there were few ground enemies to zoom away from. But when man (first the Maoris, then the whites) arrived in New Zealand, bringing along dogs, cats and rats, the flightless birds had a tough time. Some went the way of the dodo...