Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...page narrative moves slowly through 21 years of stutterer Jeremy Zorn's life. There is a rough chronology, but more free association, as one would find in a psychiatric session. Narrated in the first person, the book reads like a record of therapy. Jeremy's speech therapist Sandra is addressed in apostrophe and hangs over much of the book like some Poe-esque confidant...
...ethics President, it has been a rough 100 days. Your first nominee for Secretary of Defense, John G. Tower, crashed and burned on the character issue. Ethics czar C. Boyden Gray '64 was lambasted for the appearance of impropriety...
Lightweight Co-Captain Sarah Yeates described the race conditions as "really horrible with a lot of rough wind and water...
...visitors did get some vindication from the poor weather, as the rough conditions caused the Harvard freshman boat to fall behind after its six-seat, Ivan Rudnicki, caught a crab...
...reach the surface about 320 miles off the northern coast of Norway. As it wallowed, many of the 95 crew members rushed to life rafts and paddled away. A small flotilla of Soviet vessels sped to pick up survivors and also tried to tow the sub to safety. But rough seas and winds gusting to 46 m.p.h. soon dashed the effort. About six hours after the emergency began, the vessel sank in water more than 4,500 ft. deep, where even its tough hull would crumple like foil. At least 50 crewmen may have died...