Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rough playing conditions worked to Harvard's advantage in the late stages, as the choppy, divot-filled penalty circle made. Dartmouth's crossing passes bouncy and unpredictable. A five-foot hill on the southeast corner of the field further complicated matters. And rains before and during the contest slowed the ball and caused some unintentional acrobatics displays...
...victims might be-men or women, young or old-and could not have cared. Six bottles of cyanide-poisoned Tylenol were found in five drugstores and one supermarket; one store was in north Chicago, but the others were in communities in the western suburbs, strung out along a rough north-south line near Illinois State Route 53. The investigators' chilling theory: the murderer had driven along 53, turned off at randomly selected points and placed one bottle of poisoned capsules in each store, to be bought by the next or third or 15th man, woman or child who walked...
LYING IN A STRANGE woman's bed and clutching at the loose ends of his emerging consciousness, Peter O'Toole looks gloriously dissipated. His long face, rough hewn by the careless chisel of time, barely resists the pull of gravity; even his mustache threatens to slide off his upper lip like a caterpillar from a branch...
...unusual finish was not wholly unfamiliar to Rippy and the Rough Riders. We've had some messy finishes before, he said. "But this was easily the worst in the worst conditions possible...
...NOTEBOOK In the harriers four races they've had a new first summer in three of the meets, showing team depth and the ability among the first five McNaulty, Rippy Schuler, and Jeilly are passed by freshmen Paul Campers to form the tight pack of Rough Riders...