Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miami-Biltmore course the vacationing losers plotted to hoax the winner. To Golfer Pelley they introduced Paul Runyan, onetime Professional Golfers Association champion, as "Mr. Paul, a young businessman from Muncie, Ind., with a handicap of eight." In the morning round Golfer "Paul" hooked his drives into the rough, flubbed his putts, shot occasional approaches ably enough to make a 75, win. Golfer Pelley magnanimously congratulated his opponent, promised to beat him that afternoon. The hoax was prematurely exposed at lunch when Paul Runyan was paged by a waiter...
...very cold dry snow, the waxing surface should be extremely smooth; while on wet snow it should be comparatively rough, as a smooth surface will "suck" on wet snow causing very slow running...
...always a good thing to carry a piece of paraffin along on a tour, as the snow texture is liable to change unexpectedly at any time; thus if you have waxed for dry snow (mix and very smooth surface) and you run into wet snow, by rubbing a rough coating of paraffin over the other wax it will enable the skis to glide freely...
Keep the skis and wax for some time in a warm room before waxing. Rub on a rough coating over the running surface of the skis, and smooth it down with the palm of the hand, rubbing it in one direction only; that is, from point to back...
...bound in rough grey paper with a vellum back and leather label stamped in gold. The first two-thirds deal with Lawrence's days as a private in the Air Force, which he joined in August 1922 after resigning his rank as Political Adviser in the Colonial Office. The remainder tells of his less harrowing days in the Cadet Corps. To protest the betrayal of the Arab cause at the Peace Conference, at which his promises to Arab leaders were broken, Lawrence refused his Colonial Office salary for six months, worked in an architect's office, went hungry...