Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as the going got rough in Washington, De Lattre was calm. Said his wife: "He has got very patient since he has gone to Fontainebleau-as patient as when he was in prison." Patiently, the man on a tightrope was waiting for America to commit an act of faith...
...saddled with a panther skin (see cut). Carved about 125 B.C., it would probably have been destroyed long ago by weathering if it had stayed in its original place. But when Greek civilization degenerated into barbarism, the two marble slabs were used as secondhand building stones to line a rough, crude tomb in the suburbs of Athens. This insult to the carving saved it. When Greek archeologists dug them up, the two slabs could be fitted together almost as good as new. Even some of the brown paint on the slave's face and arms is still in place...
...often the flower plays too rough, and the snap of the pistil knocks the bee for a loop. Tough wild bees will take this punishment. Gently bred tame bees will not. They sneak up on the flower and steal its nectar stealthily without springing the pistil. The flower thus remains unfertilized and bears no alfalfa seed...
Bradshaw's drive off the fifth tee landed in the bottom half of a broken bottle lying in the rough. He studied the impossible lie, gulped and selected a niblick. One mighty swat sent glass splinters flying, but the ball trickled only a few feet. That stroke cost him the British Open...
...induce these terrified infants to strip and climb the dark, evil-smelling flues," writes Author Phillips, masters used "beatings with rods and ropes, straw lighted beneath them, pins stuck in their legs . . . kicks on their bottoms." The rough flues rubbed great open sores on elbows and knees, which masters hardened with saltpeter; after about six months, they stopped hurting...