Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thrust without warning, the Samurai-Admiral appeared almost a freak. To get to Nanking before the deadline he had set for its destruction last week, U. S. correspondents and cameramen leaped into any kind of car they could hire at Shanghai, tore off over 160 miles of road so rough that a jagged rock punctured the crankcase of one car. Nimbly the Chinese chauffeur repaired it with a piece of chamois skin and a can opener, dashed on with his cargo of foreign devils bound for the scene of advertised atrocities...
Main Tent. Each day of the political circus featured a different attraction in the centre ring. Most impressive: The march-past on the mammoth Zeppelin Meadow of the Arbeitsdienst-Nazi compulsory labor battalions. Forty thousand lads in rough khaki, 3,000 stripped to the waist, goose stepped past the Realmleader, mirrored thousands of times on the silver-blue spades they carried on their shoulders. Most beautiful: 22,000 alternate Nazi ranks, carrying flaming torches, wending their slow tramp along the search-lit walls of the turreted medieval city. Most spectacular: 140,000 brown-uniformed Storm Troopers lined up column upon...
Ever since Pan American Airways established tiny Wake Island as the third stop to & from China, the airport's chief ornamental feature has been an old anchor. Corroded by decades of salt water, its flukes almost rusted away, the ancient piece of iron rises seven feet above a rough concrete base in the centre of "The Park" between the landing stage and hotel. But until last week nobody was able to tell passengers much about Wake's old anchor...
...Colonel Knox's face, normally ruddy and smiling, became ruddy and grim. He strode into his office, whose walnut panels once adorned the private library of late News Publisher Victor Lawson. Popping down before his little typewriter beside his great desk, Publisher Knox jangled the keys. In rare rough rider style he rattled off an editorial ripping into AP-the great press association of which Publisher Victor Lawson was founder, of which Melville Stone (founder of the News) was long general manager. He wrote...
...observed with satisfaction that his tongue was so long (14 in.) that he used it to wash out his ears and flick flies from his withers. Congo immediately took to Dr. Blair, who three times a day fed him bananas, cabbages, carrots, sweet potatoes, condensed milk. Except for three rough days, Congo took his food with relish. Normally okapis are browsers. They eat tender shoots from the tops of shrubs and trees...