Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rough idea of the effectiveness of several descriptions can be gleaned from the following passage, which epitomizes Mr. Blake's style, and the spirit in which he writes. "We killed rattlesnakes, big ones, the mottled brown diamond backs that were everywhere, among the rocks, on the glaring open salt fiats, in the sage country. I shudder to think, of those ugly reptiles coiled and ratting, ready to strike venom into a man's leg and turn his red blood a vivid, poisonous green. And I feel the cold shivers on my spine when I realize that I stepped within...
...meeting in the Midwest, his friends were last week promising that much would be heard, if not from, at least about, red-faced William Franklin ("Frank") Knox whose political beginnings were under Teddy Roosevelt in the Rough Riders. Once the general manager of all Hearstpapers. Colonel Knox today publishes the Chicago Daily News. His ambition is to live, like his father, to be over 80 but since the beginning of 1935 his speeches indicate that he would rather live in the White House than become an octogenarian. "I should be in my own eyes intellectually dishonest, if I failed...
Change to Charm. The outward signs of that change are marked. The Senator was loud, rough, profane. He still is, by nature, but nowadays as he passes through the corridors of the Senate Office Building, he tries to be charming and affable to all comers. He used to run around to his quota of parties, but nowadays he has little time for such gay amusement. Though he has not yet become a teetotaler, he is no longer the Huey Long of the Sands Point washroom. This change is not reform; it is ambition, guided by a keen sense of self...
With the two representatives of the Crimson eliminated in the preliminary matches, a strong aggregation from Oklahoma A. & M. rode rough shod over their opponents to win first place in the National Intercollegiate Wrestling Championship, held Friday and Saturday at Lehigh University...
...strafing troops but unable to carry big enough bombs to hurt the Aver off much. The "pure Greeks" of the mainland were loyal to the Government but apathetic. And the Government command was divided between Tsaldaris' two formidable partners, wily Monarchist John Metaxas, Minister without portfolio, and a rough-&-ready soldier, General George Kondylis, Minister of War, who promptly took charge in the field and had himself promoted to Field Marshal...