Word: rougher
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...usual case for boxing as art or science is rougher to make in the face of this face. Valor can be redeeming; so can grace, poise, bearing, even cunning. But this is a nightmare. The monster that men have worried was at the heart of their indefinable passion, of their indefensible sport, has come out in the flesh to be the champion of the world. Next Monday night, he will be served Michael Spinks...
...third 500 we were still up on them--they'd get a seat and we'd pull ahead," coxswain Katia Rorer said. "Then in the last 500 things got rougher for us, and they sprinted through us. Everyone was a little disappointed, but the oarlock was a serious problem...
...make sure in the second half of the race that we concentrated well," Harvard coxswain Jim Crick said. "In rougher waters, the oar sometimes catches and you stall...
This is a dangerous and potentially deadly time to be a retailer in America. The number of stores has grown at a rate far faster than the U.S. population, setting off a competitive battle as wild and unpredictable as a Wrestlemania spectacular. As the grappling gets rougher and tougher in an industry where takeovers and leveraged buyouts have become everyday events, some contestants are being tossed out of the ring and others are being dismembered or gobbled up by competitors...
Given Congress's performance over the past seven years, any Central American must anticipate that the future will include a Nicaragua run by Sandinistas. To be the architect of a plan that saves the Sandinistas from the contra threat (and, en passant, softens some of the rougher edges of Sandinista rule) will serve Arias and Costa Rica well in a Central America destined to be dominated by Nicaragua...