Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your team to determine your boat ranking and seat for the competitive season starting in just a few weeks. Two boats will race for three minutes, oarsmen will switch boats, and then the boats will race again. The coach will compare results over the week to get a rough determination of your skill with respect to the team overall. For the first time all year, competition, moderated by the gentlemanly tradition, will divide the team as you rank yourself and eye your adversaries warily...
...Lippert was different very different. He was you see an animal. He hibernated for more than 12 hours each day emerging between 1 and 2 p.m. After lunch and a quick nap he would arise again to rough-house until 2 a.m., when he would again hit the sack. On weekends he caught up on his sleep...
...Well." I say. "Well. it was a little rough in the beginning. but I think I'm getting used to it. It's still a little frightening. though. you know?" I realize I need sympathy: I have. in fact. been alone. I crave human contact. I my be radioactive...
...author. Morrison, whose Song of Solomon (1977) won the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction, blends elements of racial identity, assimilation and Caribbean folklore with an old-fashioned lady-and-the-truck-driver romance. Can sophisticated Jadine and her black diamond in the rough make it, even after he has a haircut and borrows a Hickey Freeman suit? Or will Ryk, a rich somebody, lure her back to Paris by sending her a sealskin coat she cannot wear in the tropics...
This enthusiasm helps compensate for the production's predictably rough edges: a missed line, a mishandled prop. a conversation shouted instead of projected. Unfortunately, Saka's direction sometimes isn't up to the challenges of performing theatre-in-the-round, as when he lets actors huddle around a dying man, muffling lines and shutting off visual expression...