Word: roughed
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...been unpopular. But since the useful life of a paper pound is ten months, vs. 40 years for the coin, the Royal Mint expects to save $3.75 million a year. The British have already dubbed the new coin the Maggie, after Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, because it is hard, rough around the edges and, says one Member of Parliament, "pretends to be a sovereign...
Earlier, Flug had interviewed Kennedy in West Virginia, where the candidate had refused to answer some of Flug's questions about his media campaign. Flug recalls that Kennedy's "people told me later he had in fact remembered the Harvard reporter who had given him such a rough interview...
...hope that the President will bear this distinction in mind as he contemplates his second term agenda. Clearly a landslide victory is a sturdy political walking stick that can be called into service whenever the road gets rough in the next four years. Yet given the electorate's tepid reception of Reagan clones mouthing the President's line--Bay State businessman Rax Shamie comes quickly to mind--it would be dishonest to interpret the Reagan win as a green flag for the radical right...
...Bush's mouth was often in business for itself. He was notably rough on the English language in a campaign that as a whole must have brought down the IQ of the mother tongue by ten points. Bush said that the faces of America's Olympic athletes were filled with "optimism and determinism...
Pritchard does not deny that the play was rough. With friends and supporters, Frost was sometimes manipulative and dissembling. Toward rivals, he was hostile at worst, wary at best (when invited to share a platform with other poets, here plied with the ditty "I only go/ When I'm the show"). Yet Pritchard sets all this against Frost's compelling need to establish his poetic voice. The poet knew that his technique-the colloquial tone played against traditional meters, the apprehension of unnamed mysteries in ordinary experiences-was far more original and subtle than it appeared...