Word: rougher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from F80 Shooting Stars set dry grass and bright autumn foliage ablaze, but failed to smash some Communist redoubts. In the first day of the attack the cavalry took many casualties, moved little more than a mile beyond the parallel. Said one officer: "It's been rough work, rougher than we expected. We had hoped to be 25 miles into North Korea by this time...
...league champion Cornell will have rougher going than Columbia this afternoon at Ithaca when the Big Red meets Lafayette. Two weeks ago this game figured to be the usual opening "softie" for Cornell, but last Saturday Lafayette was barely beaten, 20 to 19, by Fordham. This gam might be a contest as late as the third quarter...
...dancers were scared stiff. For one thing, in rehearsals they had found the stage floor rather rough. Said one dancer: "I've never had to darn my toe shoes so much." And the British balletomanes they were to face for the first time were rumored to be even rougher. Wailed 20-year-old Dancer Melissa Hayden: "Gee, my stomach-I'm in real pain. I don't know how I can use my legs. I just want to hunch...
...dining hall, when first classmen at his table fired questions at him, Sherman always knew the answers- and often in more detail than his seniors. "You're too smart; get under the table," he was ordered, and there he sat, without dinner, taking his hazing. The hazers, rougher than they are these days, sought him out in barracks. They made him stand for an hour at attention holding a heavy book extended in one hand. On cold nights, he was shoved under a cold shower and his bedding thrown in with him. "He never complained, even to me," said...