Word: hardbitten
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...last morning, as they gathered for Communion at a bare table, a loaf of bread was passed around for each to break, an earthen Communion cup for all to drink from. The final prayer of the "hungry men" of Kirkridge: that they might achieve "a new, hardbitten, humble dedication to neglected but crucial tasks...
Said the War Department's lean, hardbitten Major General John H. Hilldring: "We are still feeling our way along a path which lies more in darkness than in light...
...hundred warships of the U.S. Seventh Fleet stood in to Brunei Bay in northwest Borneo. Off went the landing craft, with less than a division of hardbitten, hard-swearing Australian veterans. One week later, with spectacular ease, they had conquered a major harbor, three airfields, three towns, two islands and a peninsula. With minor losses, they had given General Douglas MacArthur a military base midway between Manila and Singapore, virtually choked off the South China Sea and opened new fields for Allied bombers. After two visits ashore, the General exulted: "Rarely was such a strategic prize obtained at such...
...Just imagine!" cried West Virginia's hardbitten, New Dealing Governor Matthew Mansfield ("Matt") Neely, "asking the citizens to choose between Funkhouser and Rush Holt for their Governor...
...LAKE-Raymond Chandler-Knopf ($2). Mr. Marlowe, forthright and uninhibited California shamus (private detective), is hired to trace the missing wife of a perfume manufacturer, encounters three murders, trades punches with the police, and finally drives a tragic and cunningly concealed killer to his death. An astringent, hardbitten, expertly constructed and convincingly characterized story of the just-tough-enough school...