Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West Texas, nature still needs a good deal of subduing. Man and nature tend to be a little rough with each other. The weather runs to perverse extremes; droughts have a way of ending abruptly in floods. Nature bangs around sometimes giving melodramatic and even lunatic performances. Now, in winter, the temperature will rise to 70° F or so one day, and the next, the wind will swivel around out of Canada to bring down a "blue Norther," a deep, dry blast of almost metaphysical cold. "There's nothing between here and the North Pole but a barbed...
...Beckoff (Estelle Getty), the ultimate Jewish mother, and Fierstein has enough material for another three-acter. He has in fact perhaps too much to handle-or too little sense of structure to handle it well. He seems to have just tacked everything hurriedly together, without bothering to smooth the rough edges...
...With a young team it's important to build up momentum early in the year," Palm says, explaining that an experienced team has less difficulty digging in an regrouping in the face of a rough first few games...
Comments--it should be noted that some of these players transcend physical hockey and enter the realm of street crime. Others aren't that bad, and just play rough with the emphasis on the elbows. You can figure our who goes where. The team plays in Lynah Rink, Ithaca, and is covered effectively by hockey writer Stan Fischler...
...stinging 24-page opinion, Judge Terence Evans said: "He was rough, sometimes careless. He did not possess good medical judgment." The Air Force transfer from Lackland to Milwaukee, the judge suspected, was a way "to get Dr. Stanford off its hands for a while to prohibit scandal and further dissension among the doctors." The $1.8 million award must be paid by the Government under existing law. As for Stanford, he has retired from the military and practices at the highly rated Miami Heart Institute. Myers is now surgeon general of the Air Force, its top-ranking medical officer...