Word: roughed
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Harvard's performance indicates the booters are a genuine threat as a spoiler in the Ivies this season. Outplaying the class of the league for one half is no small accomplishment, and the booters still have two tough matches with non-Ivy opponents to smooth over the rough spots...
...another type of leave taking may prove inevitable for some--taking the fruits of advanced standing to avoid a rough senior-year aid package. Weiner, who entered with advanced standing with a just-in-case attitude, soon decided he would stay the fourth year. Now, though he "hates the thought" of leaving, he says senior year "is looking a lot less likely...
Another question that the Vatican must answer, if only to itself, is: Should the church's own bank be so deeply involved in the rough-and-tumble of high-risk international finance? Pope Paul VI, feeling that the church should not only be poor, but be "seen to be poor," moved in 1969 to adopt a lower financial profile by relinquishing the church's controlling interests in Italian companies and shifting to investments outside Italy. Through the Ambrosiano scandal, Marcinkus has clearly raised the church's profile...
...still bewildered by his latest crime. He is now doing six to twelve for the attempted murder of his "lady" in Poughkeepsie. After serving time for the robbery conviction, he began to work with delinquent teenagers, but he got into trouble there too, fighting with the authorities over their rough handling of the kids. "They told me: Everybody does it. I told them: / don't do it. I'm part of everybody." He lost that job and "drank and drank." Then he lost his lady, and one day he went after her where she worked-just to talk...
...most difficult challenge for him and his 44-ft. sloop Nike II. Britain's Richard Broadhead, at 29 the youngest contender, thinks that going over the side of his 52-ft. cutter Perseverance of Medina in the tropics would be the worst thing that could happen. "In the rough southern ocean you wouldn't last a minute," is his bleak forecast. "But in the tropics you'd stick around until the sharks came and got you." Paul Rodgers, 37, of London, whose 55-ft. Spirit of Pentax is the narrowest boat in the race, has some daunting...