Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saturday's race, however, did not prove completely satisfying for the Radcliffe boat. Senior stroke Jenny Stone characterized the tri-race as "very rough," adding, "It didn't feel very good...
Between that overconfidence and dozens of sunning Quaker rooters, the match was a struggle all the way. Number one singles player Don Pompan worried about his upcoming match with the MCATs, and he lost a couple of rough sets to Murray Robinson, whom he had narrowly defeated last year...
Steiner said the monthly police statistics are not designed to show all crimes committed in the area and that there "is certainly human error" in the figures. "They serve as a rough barometer of the extent of crime," he added...
Shepard has the gift of language, which rescues the sledgehammer style of his message. The slang tumbles across the stage like a wild Western river, thoughts as big as the countryside: "You look like forty miles of rough road," says Weston to his son. The frontier reduces life to its primal elements, revealing raw humanity, a force as powerful and perverse as the worthless farm the characters inhabit...
...film's contribution to jazz mythology will be modest. Eddie Durham tells of how Basie's "One O'Clock Jump" was renamed when radio censors vetoed the original title, "Blue Balls." McShann provides yet another anecdote about how Parker came to be called Yardbird. Ricker's 24 hours of rough footage doubtless contained many more interesting stories, but as a movie, not an oral history project, the film's wonderful sense of pace easily offsets an occasional choppiness in cutting from one bull session to another...