Word: roughest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...E.T.A. itself is going through one of the roughest periods in its 22-year history...
...girl's best friend, but for the police they are a major nuisance. Once they are stolen, they are among the easiest of valuables to sell. Even if they are recovered, the four Cs of the diamond business-cut, clarity, carat and color-provide only the roughest means of identification. In fact, identification is sometimes so difficult that police have occasionally been forced to return diamonds to a known thief because there was no proof that they were stolen goods. Now, Israeli scientists think they have solved the gem identity crisis with a system that they claim...
...north woods track men trained through the term, but the rigors of reading period lay rest to the roughest runner. With the regular season races resuming in a week the relative repose of study will be replaced by the rigors of training camp to revitalize the sheumatic racers...
Apart from the Nixon question, the five defendants remained in deep trouble last week as their lawyers began presenting the defense. In the roughest cross-examination of the trial to date, former Attorney General John Mitchell was pushed beyond the limits of credibility by Chief Prosecutor James Neal...
...probably the roughest caricature of Gerald Ford ever seen in a major U.S. publication: New York magazine last week ran a cover of the President as Bozo the Clown. Some journalists quickly questioned New York's taste and timing in running the burlesque just when Ford was on a national mission abroad. But after the WIN buttons, the list of undistinguished nominations, the drift, the constant domestic travels, the bloopers and the gaffes, few could deny that New York's article inside had brought to the fore some basic questions about the President's capacity...