Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This incredibly rough game ended at midnight and both teams were so tired they lost the next night. In the first period a puck struck Harvard's Jim Thomas above the left eye. The gash required seven stitches, but a parched-up Thomas rejoined the fray in the third period...
...come here for the blood," says an anonymous Eliot house senior. Maertz, the senior tutor, is less enthused. "I'm not coming back here," he declared. "This place is too rough...
...Harvard men's hockey team tonight journeys into the rough seas of New Haven, a city that has proved anything but a haven to the Crimson...
...born in 1919. His ancestors resembled argon, the author explains, because it is an inactive gas: "They were inert in their inner spirits, inclined to disinterested speculation, witty discourses, elegant, sophisticated and gratuitous discussion." Like argon, the Piedmont Jews behaved eccentrically, never combining with other elements. They spoke the rough Piedmontese dialect inlaid with Hebrew --"sacred and solemn, geologic, polished smooth by the millennia like the bed of a glacier." As deftly translated by Raymond Rosenthal, the oddities of speech are a delight. So is the "inexplicable imprecation" for which Levi's great-grandfather was famous: "May he have...
...detectives should mind their manners. Rough, tough crime fighters like NBC's Hunter won relatively few fans last fall, while CBS's civilized whodunit Murder, She Wrote, with Angela Lansbury as a sleuthing mystery writer, was a hit. Presto! CBS has given that show a Sunday-night partner in crime, Crazy Like a Fox. The surprise of Murder, She Wrote is that, for all the echoes of Agatha Christie, Lansbury is not playing Miss Marple; the irony of Crazy Like a Fox is that Jack Warden is. As a gruffly eccentric middle-aged private eye, he delights in getting...