Word: ruggedness
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Watch the Second. Now was the time to rain blows without mercy on Germany's bleeding western flank. The Remagen bridge led into rugged country without any close objective of strategic importance. To realize Remagen's fullest value, ten or even 20 more crossings of the Rhine were...
The perpetually wistful expression and querulous British accents that marked McDowall's success in "Lassie Comes Home" hardly blend into a background of ranch life. In spite of his undeniable ability, his unable to act convincingly as a rugged and rural American youth. A Swedish hired hand, left over from...
Missing. Lieut. General Millard Fillmore ("Miff") Harmon, 57, studious, unstarched commander of Army Air Forces, Pacific; in a converted Liberator bomber; en route from a forward Pacific base to Hawaii. His ability and knack at coordinating Army, Navy and Marine forces prompted Admiral Halsey to call him "Rock of Gibraltar...
"Not many people," observed Gertrude Stein's U.S. publisher, Bennett Cerf, in his best-selling Try and Stop Me, "even claim to understand the intricacies of Miss Stein's prose style. But millions admire her rugged and magnificent personality." Pennsylvania-born Gertrude Stein has now lived out one...
The chief of its delegation (which included seven women) was 44-year-old trade-union chief Vasili Kuznetsov, a rugged, hard-driving steel worker who learned to speak fluent English while working for Henry Ford in Detroit. Britain's 15 delegates were headed by veteran T.U.C. Secretary Sir Walter...