Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Each of the two candidates lives with his large family in the rough Boston neighborhood where he was born and raised. Both started their political careers at the grass roots, and spent most of the past decade serving in the Massachusetts state legislature. And in this year's keenly contested election for mayor, the two men were politically the most leftward in the race, both running on a promise to shift money and urban-planning energies away from glamorous downtown and harbor-front development toward rebuilding Boston's neglected working-class neighborhoods. Their populist appeals proved so evenly...
...after he turned left and had to forget the pitch ("I'd better not pitch the ball or they'd fight over it," he figured), he just turned the other way, ran around right end, escaped a near tackle by safety Joe Harvey, found rough going on the right side of the field, turned back the other way, outran three more Tigers and, while he was at it, scored a touchdown...
Maybe so, but for now the industry faces a rough passage through perilous times. With dozens of companies trying to make the journey, the casualties are bound to be heavy...
...group's tasteless jokes will not tarnish it. The percentage of students admitted who do opt to come to Harvard, each year about 75 percent, is always the highest in the nation, and the admissions office is hardly at the point where a frank discussion of the school's rough spots will turn away prospectives in droves. It might not even be in the best interests of the University if those who would not be happy here decided to come based on misleading advice. Harvard looks much better for allowing and encouraging it students to criticize than for telling them...
Three days later, the Superfort Great Artiste was out on a similar mission. Major Charles W. Sweeney had a rough trip to Japan in bad weather; his primary target was socked in. Over the second-choice target, Nagasaki, he had just enough gas left...