Word: hardbitten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seamen's union, told of his odyssey. He had been recruited by the Communists in France, then shipped on to join the rebels via Prague and Yugoslavia. "What could I do? I had no money, so I joined up," he explained. "Kaipali Grammos" (Grammos once again), said one hardbitten, stunted little Greek soldier to a U.S. correspondent. Like many of his comrades, the soldier remembered last year's unsuccessful "Operation Coronet," in which the Greek army had tried and failed to wrest Grammos from the Communists. This time, Athens was confident that its troops had come to rugged...
Secretary of State Dean Acheson expressed the "grave concern" of the U.S. Government, and the State Department finally wrung from the Czech foreign office a promise that U.S. officials could interview the imprisoned soldiers. A hardbitten old sergeant from the pair's old outfit, the 6th Armored Cavalry Regiment, voiced his own position more succinctly. Said he: "If them lunkheads is spies, I'm Mata Hari...
...Much Alcohol. No pious bluenose, Hirsh is a hardbitten, 34-year-old health administrator who has spent nearly twelve years studying drinkers. He has worked for the U.S. Public Health Service, the World Health Organization, the Research Council on Problems of Alcohol and as chief of preventive medicine for the Twelfth Air Force in Italy. He does not denounce alcohol as the root of all evils. Says he: "Traffic accidents, crime, promiscuity and divorce go deeper and far beyond alcohol...
...hardbitten or tired English tempers in later years, that felicitous pre-1914 age came to seem almost mythical; and Rupert Brooke, its golden lad, became himself a myth, romantic, heartbreaking, and also a little flimsy. He had written, when the war began...
...politicians-not even Communists-can get away with this kind of wild double-dealing forever. In Belmont, and in thousands of Belmonts all over France, disillusion has set in. All the grip which La Terre has acquired on the peasants, all the attractiveness of hardbitten, fast-talking Communist farmer Deputies will not prevent the party from losing hundreds of thousands of rural votes at the Oct. 19 elections...