Word: rougher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...items, Zerbe set an old man with vertically furrowed face and sharply structural features against a background of high buildings. The man's face seems to be made of the same rough masonry as the building; Zerbe mixes mica, sand or flint with his plastic to give a rougher surface. Three Doors is a semi-abstraction in quiet reds, mauves and greens which conveys the dilapidated dignity of the hallways of old brownstone tenements...
...businessmen rarely allow themselves to think about this situation. When they do, they give a lot of excellent reasons for it. Women lack technical aptitude and muscle power, which keeps them out of the rougher side of industry, where many top executives get their start. The career they are really interested in is marriage. "By the time you have spent a lot of time and money training them for executive jobs," says a Seattle department-store man, "some guy grabs them off, or they get pregnant, or something." Says Charles Percy, president of Bell & Howell (cameras): "Sometimes they permit themselves...
Dunster figures to have rougher sailing. Its toughest opponent will be Adams, which gave Leverett a scare last week, but lost 7 to 0. Dunster's other opponents are Eliot and Dudley who have only one win between them...
...trip from Panmunjom to my final destination, my home." Then his thin voice took on a parade-ground tone. "I want a few things understood," he said. "I was not a hero. I was a prisoner of war because of unfortunate circumstances. Other prisoners of war had it rougher than I had it. I have talked to a great many of those men, and there are real heroes among them...
...represent it, is rugged for Her Majesty's ambassador, Sir Roger Makins, forced, in the name of duty, to eat lavender-pink potato salad and dance the Lambeth Walk with strange ladies. Let Sir Roger reflect that his predecessors of 20 years ago had it even rougher: no champagne or Scotch to wash the stuff down with ... At least, in this age of lavender-pink potatoes and policies, Sir Roger does not have to face the grim protocol of Prohibition, which moved the compassion of Hilaire Belloc...