Word: rough
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...remember, and the Harvard I don’t want to remember. In them I’m obscenely optimistic and cheerful. I’m painfully naïve (and still am a little bit). On Jan. 20, exhilarated to be done with final exams and a very rough first semester, I write: “I’m done! I’m finally done! Hooray!” A week later comes a friendly e-mail from a friend I had worked with at camp the summer before. I never wrote back, and a few months...
...Harvard undergraduates of 1977 thus saw a campus torn between the old and the new, undergoing a sometimes rough transition from idealism to social conservatism...
...looks like a cop from a Hollywood movie, circa 1950, only he's not crusty. Tall and square-jawed, he wears his uniform without wrinkles, pops breath fresheners before going into meetings and ends his e-mails with electronic smiles. Despite his easygoing manner, he knows how rough it is on the streets. In 1974, when he was a 24-year-old rookie, a man holed himself up in a house and threatened to kill his wife. Reichert went in through a window alone and got the woman out, but was surprised by the man, who slit Reichert's throat...
...built turboprop from Hakodate airport in Japan for the two-hour hop across the Sea of Okhotsk. The two nations are separated by a mere 43 kilometers of water, but the cultural gulf between them is immeasurable. Whereas Hakodate has a fastidious obsession with order and cleanliness, Sakhalin is rough and gritty, reflecting its history. Forgotten by successive Russian governments and weather-beaten by violent winter storms, Yuzhno is a mix of degraded Soviet architecture, dusty, potholed streets and makeshift stalls...
Crockett settled down after that rough inning, and Trey Hendricks’ first-pitch solo shot over the right field wall—his sixth dinger of the year—narrowed the deficit to two runs...