Word: gumption
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...cigarettes. I dare say that every cigarette smoker would gladly give up the habit if he thought that he would not miss smoking and be unhappy about it. The fact is. as in my own case, a sense of pride comes with the fact that I possessed guts and gumption enough to give up the habit...
...they must have more managerial training and executive talent. Says Herbert Barchoff, member of the Small Business Administration's national advisory council and president of Manhattan's $4,000,000-a-year Eastern Rolling Mills: "The day has passed when a seat-of-the-pants entrepreneur, by gumption and ingenuity, could build a fair-sized business...
Papagos was court chamberlain when in 1948 General George Catlett Marshall went to Athens to see what could be done to stop the Communist guerrilla army driving down from the north. "What you need," Marshall told King Paul, "is a supreme commander with enough gumption to lay down the law. You've got the right man here-Papagos." In six months Commander in Chief Papagos, with U.S. arms aid and the friendly advice of a U.S. team under General James Van Fleet, had licked the Communists...
...more young men that won't have to go to Korea and fight and that will add to our unemployment." And that idea that a 19-year-old boy could be drafted and sent to Korea to be shot at, and he didn't have enough gumption to go 100 miles and get himself a job -I don't go for that. I've got a lot of sympathy for people where a sudden change catches them. But-I've always liked bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs myself...
...Lots of Gumption. A year ago, when Poetry was turned out of its offices after 40 years, Ellen Stevenson fruitlessly searched Chicago for new quarters. Then one night as she lay awake a solution came to her: "Why don't I have the gumption to rent my own house to myself? So I did!" Into the 70-year-old Borden mansion on Bellevue Place on little cat feet moved Poetry and also nine other worthy cultural refugees, including the English-Speaking Union, a little theatre group and a highbrow FM station. The old house where Ellen Stevenson grew...