Word: roughed
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...unionized North, he took a cut in pay and benefits-partly offset by lower taxes. Texas living, says his wife Susan, 29, is expensive, and their son "misses fishing in the Michigan lakes." Though Texans are friendly, Duden notes, "Amy Vanderbilt never got west of the Mississippi. There are rough edges down here...
After the initial celebrations at the Post over its 17th Pulitzer came word of Cooke's false academic credentials and the first real cross-examining of her. It got rough. Bradlee: "You're like Richard Nixon-you're trying to cover up." Woodward: "It's all over. You've got to come clean." After hours of grilling in a conference room, she confided her guilt to one sympathetic editor, and the others were brought back in. As the ombudsman reported the scene, "Each editor hugged and kissed her. 'I'm sorry...
...however, the 55 m.p.h. speed limit appears headed for a stretch of rough pavement. Bills to raise or circumvent the speed limit are under consideration in more than a score of state legislatures, particularly in the West, where ornery "sagebrush rebellion" sentiment fuels anger at all kinds of federal impositions. In some states, highway patrolmen are looking the other way as speeders pass. In others, such as Texas and California, fast drivers greatly outnumber police available to stop them. Last week in Nevada, a state consisting almost entirely of wide open spaces, the Governor signed a bill that makes speeders...
...Rough start in Africa...
...apartheid policies. Said the unrepentant Tutu after politely handing over the travel document: "Nothing the government does will stop us from becoming free. Sooner or later-perhaps sooner than he thinks-the Prime Minister will be begging me to take back my passport and to intervene when things get rough...