Word: hardbitten
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...after a while. If you could be sure that it was meant to be funny, you could relax and enjoy it thoroughly. The one substantial point of reference in Desert Fury's bewildering world is Mary Astor, who is at once attractive, amusing and vigorously convincing as the hardbitten, hard-biting mother...
...which teems with many strange forms of lower animal life, lives a terrifying snail. It spreads a parasitic disease, schistosomiasis, which has afflicted Egyptians since the Pharaohs; the parasite's eggs have been found in preserved human viscera 3,000 years old. For the past five years, a hardbitten, stubborn-jawed, 70-year-old U.S. doctor named Claude Heman Barlow has worked mightily to deliver Egyptians from this ancient plague. His specialty: killing snails...
...Sleep. Humphrey Bogart & wife (Lauren Bacall) play hide-&-seek with sudden death in Raymond Chandler's hardbitten thriller (TIME...
Last week in London the trusteeship committee of the United Nations Preparatory Commission was discussing a proposal which would permit African natives to elect spokesmen to appear before UNO. Up jumped South Africa's hardbitten, outspoken George Heaton Nicholls. Cried he: "To invite natives to get up on platforms and express their wishes would result in chaos in Africa...
Like most other soldiers, he knew terrible fear. He conquered it with prayer. During the fighting on Guam and Leyte he became famous among the hardbitten men of the 77th Division for his serene recklessness in the face of death. In the nerve-racking weeks of the Okinawa campaign, his fame grew...