Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Egan had a rough sophomore year that included some roommate problems, but the thing he remembers most is the victory in the Easterns...
This is America's premiere horse race and it resemble nothing so much as a final exam in a rough but enjoyable course. The whole brief experience revolves around the week-long foreplay, foreplay, the loud ubiquitous hoopla perfected by Kentuckians years before the networks even started researching it. Barbecaes, races of everything from riverboats to hot-air balloons, beauty contests, and constant parties follow one another with dizzying speed and profusion. By the time the frazzled and usually drunken Derbygoer makes it to the Big Event itself (which comes, by the way, after a full slate of seven...
...fidelity and adulation. The blacks are expected to know their place. (The night before Mardi Gras six or seven blacks fought it out with a throng of whites in the middle of town, and as the fists and beer cans flew, the police, including some black officers, had a rough time containing things. Nonetheless, when it was over, no guns had been drawn, no arrests had been made and nobody said a word about it. To go to Mamou, then, is not to seek modernity. And nobody said quaint ever had to be pretty.) Mardi Gras in Mamou...
...congressional and baseball seasons usually run in rough parallel: light workouts in late winter; an irregularly quickening tempo culminating in serious legislative battles about the time of the major league playoffs and World Series. But this year the politicians are well ahead of the ballplayers. While pitchers and catchers were just starting to limber up last week under the Florida sun, Congress and the Reagan Administration had already worked themselves into a snarl of midseason intensity. A filibuster was tying up the Senate, an attempted compromise between the Administration and its Democratic opponents fell apart within hours, and partisan tempers...
...prepared a rough transcription of Macartney's notes, which are composed on both sides of two sheets...