Word: roughing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...line at a high 45 strokes per minute for the first ten pulls, dropping to about a 41 for the next ten, and then setting to about a 37 until the final sprint. Parker decided to take the Peacock shell because of the "pretty good chance of some rough water," but since the crew has raced in the shell the last two times out, it should have no effect on their performance...
Harvard coach Harry Parker was forced to change his strategy and switch shells because of the northeaster-swept Seekonk. The Crimson rowed in the freshman crew's Pocock shell which is better balanced and rides higher in rough water than the varsity's regular low-profile Stampfli boat...
Through an infinitely complicated mechanism, 135 million passengers were ticketed last year, encased in pressurized aluminum cabins, hurled aloft by 50,000 Ibs. of jet-engine thrust, comforted with rough California wine and bland Iowa steak. From the moment a plane takes off, it must be watched, first by radar at air-route traffic control centers, then by approach controllers, who assign the ship to a runway or stack it in a holding pattern. The trip costs the passenger about 5.60 per mile...
Snips out The rough talk The unpopular opinion Or anything with teeth And renders A pattern of ideas Full of holes A doily For your mind...
...explained, "When you get to work, you get to work. To some extent the project takes over. You have to immerse yourself in it without qualms--although I think there is something dangerous in that...it gets rough...