Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early going has been rough for the green Lions, who suffered a 4-2 defeat to an unheralded Fordham last Wednesday. The loss squared Columbia's record at 1-1 after the New Yorkers topped Loyola in the season-opener...
...Ballard who suggested that the Argo's maiden task be to seek the Titanic. Knorr set sail three months ago, the compact submersible on board; after performing routine explorations off the coast of San Juan and the Azores, the crew arrived at the Titanic target zone in the rough seas of the North Atlantic in late August...
Over the next several days, the Knorr crew repeatedly lowered the Argo, only to raise it again when the waves got rough. Another unmanned vessel, named Angus, was dispatched to the depths to take high-quality still photographs that would complement Argo's videotapes. Acoustic transponders delineated the ship's massive profile. Each image proved more remarkable than the previous one. A small flagpole stretched forlornly from the tip of the bow. Lifeboat bays yawned, empty. Much of the Titanic was in "pristine" condition, but portions of the hull seemed to show the lethal gash inflicted by the iceberg...
...show's bracing musical score is supplied by Jan Hammer, a Czech-born composer, using sounds stored in a digital computer synthesizer. Working in a state-of-the-art studio in his 150- year-old colonial home near Brewster, N.Y., Hammer composes the score for each episode from a rough cut sent to him by network courier. That is another break with TV tradition. "The old style was for the composer to sit in production meetings, and someone would say, 'Let's put something here,' or 'Let's put something there,' " says Hammer. "We have managed to bypass all that...
...posts in the regional party and, in 1978, his sudden call to Moscow as a member of the Communist Party Secretariat, a group of about ten officials who run the vast Soviet bureaucracy on a day-to-day basis. Gorbachev was given responsibility for all of Soviet agriculture. A rough American parallel would be the appointment of a little-known Governor of, say, South Dakota to be officially Secretary of Agriculture and unofficially a member of the President's inner circle of top advisers...