Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...churchgoers file out, another kind of Sunday crowd lines up at the Civic Center ticket window. Men stand together quietly in their rough leather boots and clean work clothes; women, teen-agers and small children talk excitedly. A sign out front announces: LIVE WRESTLING...
Percy faces a rough challenge from five-term Congressman Paul Simon, a southern Illinois liberal. Simon is known for his trademark bow ties and hornrimmed glasses and for his effectiveness on Capitol Hill: he had more of his bills passed this year than any other member of the House. Percy, although chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee since 1980, has never pushed through a major bill of his own. Polls show the candidates in a virtual dead heat. Simon has won over many black and Jewish voters who in the past had supported Percy in his more liberal incarnation...
...They were very physical," complained Mainelli, who was probably most handicapped by the rough play...
...high with blankets, heirloom carpets, anything they could salvage from their bomb-shattered homes; others piled precious possessions on top of mules and camels or carried what they could: a lantern, a teapot, a generations-old copy of the Koran. While it was dark, they traveled fast along the rough mountain roads; during the day, when planes or helicopters reappeared in the skies, the refugees took shelter amid the rocks and trees...
...tide in the rough waters of the North Sea, it looked like a dead whale floating on its belly. But the Mont Louis, a 4,210-ton French container ship that sank on Aug. 25 after colliding with a German passenger ferry eleven miles from the Belgian coast, was very much alive with frenzied activity. Three tugboats buzzed noisily around it, while black dinghies delivered wet-suited divers. The focus of their labors: 360 tons of uranium hexafluoride, raw material from which nuclear fuel is made and which is not a severe radiation danger. Three barrels, however, contained uranium that...