Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...although Holy Cross carried the game in the last half, and although Restic's charges still have a lot of rough edges to smooth over before the Crimson goes marching into West Point next week to fight the Cadets, the victory belonged to Harvard, and that is the bottom line...
...simple strength of the UConn squad created several excellent chances for the Huskies. Several Harvard players commented on the physical power of individual UConn players, and noted the rough flow of the game. Overall, more fouls, a total of 45, were called by whistle-happy referees, than in any other Crimson game this year...
Bryant's early years at Alabama were stormy. There were no recruiting violations. But the reputation for brutality persisted, although it took a different form. This time the charge was that Bryant coached his teams to play too rough. He taught gang tackling; "pursuit" is the euphemism, and mayhem is occasionally the result, when swarms of tacklers bang into the ball carrier. In 1962 the Saturday Evening Post printed a story accusing him of teaching "dirty football," and later ran an article claiming that he and Wally Butts, the University of Georgia athletic director, had conspired...
FICTION: Consenting Adults or The Duchess Will Be Furious, Peter De Vries ∙Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ∙Loon Lake, E.L. Doctorow ∙Music for Chameleons, Truman Capote ∙Rough Strife, Lynne Sharon Schwartz ∙The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble The Second Coming, Walker Percy
Hoagland is hardly the first observer of animals and lairs to balance between the rough call of the woods and the concentrated frenzy of big city living. Since Thoreau, the American essayist has been torn by the happy agony of deciding whether to leave the city for the country, and upon leaving, when to return. Nowadays the tension of two homes is stock-in-trade for the essayist, though few display the pertinacious ease and delight with acquired folkways that distinguish both Hoagland and his counterpart, John McPhee...