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Word: roughing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France, the term la rentree does not refer only to spacemen plunging back into the earth's atmosphere but also to vacationers returning to the daily grind from their month-long August break. This year, re-entry for millions of Frenchmen was as rough as it ever was for an astronaut in his red-hot cap sule. For none was it more painful than President Georges Pompidou...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Painful Re-Entry | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...this year, but now they'll have to solve the bastard Holy Cross offense-a blocking system geared to a single-wing attack, but coupled to a T-formation. Judging from what Yovicsin saw during his team's intrasquad scrimmage in the Stadium last Saturday. Harvard could have a rough opener on its hands this weekend...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Tricky Holy Cross Football Team May Give Crimson a Sticky Start | 9/22/1969 | See Source »

Marlowe is surprisingly modern. His paradigm of the unnatural is presented in raw pop colors-an Elizabethan comic book. The structures are rough-chopped. The energy springs from exaltation and terror: Marlowe's discovery that man is alone. He mocks religion in the guise of popery, and he imagines the triumph of will defiant beyond limit. But he wakes in the night with the sweaty fear of death. And he sees that man makes all the moral rules there are, as he makes his own earth-bound hellfire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stage Abroad: A Double Crown | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...weeks after the Mariner pictures were transmitted, scientists at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory were also getting a far clearer look at the red planet itself. In the first fast playback of the 200 TV images radioed by the two probes, they saw a very rough and lunar-like surface. But after considerable electronic enhancement of the pictures, a slow process that increases contrasts and eliminates random "noise" in the radio signals, the scientists have now produced a portfolio of photographs that show three distinctly different types of Martian topography. Besides cratered regions, there are huge, flat, featureless areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planetary Exploration: What Mariner Really Saw | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...marked the diamond anniversary of the publication that was no longer a diamond in the rough. President Conant said: "As a former editor of the paper. I send you hearty greetings on this memorable milestone. All who have had the privilege of seeing the University through the CRIMSON'S eyes have been especially privileged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History of the Crimson Survival, Solvency, and, Once in a While, Something Serious to Editorialize About | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

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