Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Luce show. The President, himself, asked for her defeat and on election night, when the first returns seemed to augur defeat for the Congresswoman from Connecticut, Franklin Roosevelt told his Hyde Park neighbors: "I think [that] would be a very good thing for the country, and that is a rough thing to say about a lady...
...last letter, written a few days before his death, he said: 'I am in the assault wave this time. I know it will be rough, but I have no kick coming, as I asked for it. If it will ease your mind any, remember that this was my idea. I wanted to come over here. I am scared and I am not ashamed to admit it. Also I have been reading my Bible regularly. It makes you feel a lot better...
...right to insurrection. Colonel Aguirre suspended the Constitution, proceeded to "maintain order." Hundreds were jailed. With a friendly word toward neighboring Dictator Tiburcio Carias of Honduras, Colonel Aguirre raided the headquarters of the Honduran revolutionaries in San Salvador's Nuevo Mundo Hotel. The arresting officers were so rough with the Honduran leaders they caught that the other exiles hastily fled back to Honduras. Grateful Honduras recognized Salvador's new Government...
...same bold fiat of plotting, which slices the Gordian knot paper-thin, it is also shown that he and the young lady are cousins, ineligible for wedlock. This leaves the weather clear and the track fast for a neck-and-neck finish, shared by Mr. Wayne and a fierce, rough-coated local filly (Ella Raines...
This is as close to rough talk as This Was My Newport ever gets. The memories of Maud Howe Elliott reach back to the days when Newport tradespeople sent out their bills once or twice a year and closed their shops at noon. At the height of the Newport season, the regulars counted on dining out every night of the week. At two Newport homes, Mrs. Ogden Mills's and Mrs. Elbridge Gerry's, dinner for 100 could be served without calling in outside help. Dinner began at 8:30 and lasted three hours, until King Edward...