Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kinder now. The crosscurrents and races of this turbulent moat are never still, but the long winter storms were over. The fresh wind still snatched spindrift from the whitecaps in the narrows opposite Dover, as it did beyond in the North Sea, and around Cape Breton in the rough Bay of Biscay. But in the fjords, in the bays and river mouths, the way was smoother. Along the flat sand beaches and the rocky cliffs, around the peninsulas, along the marshes and the dikes the invasion season had begun...
Many of the 6,000,000 Polish-Americans in the U.S., concentrated principally in Illinois, Connecticut, New York, Michigan, pondered the same question. A rough welcome home awaited Father Orlemanski...
...also has the critics: Mexico's music critics takes a dim and lofty view of music that U.S. critics accept with mild applause. Last month Conductor Leopold Stokowski, who is not accustomed to rough handling, got an abrasive going-over by Mexico City's music critics: he had the temerity to offer Mexicanos lush popular arrangements...
...then to publisher-owner of the huge (412,148 circ.) Chicago Daily News in 1931. The Rooseveltian half of his life began in the Spanish-American War, when young Knox got a bullet hole through his hat and a "Bully!" from Teddy for his service in the Rough Riders...
...already begun to haunt thoughtful war workers looking ahead to war's end. But when C.I.O. United Steelworkers launched their attack on the Little Steel formula, their demand for a guaranteed annual wage was generally regarded as a mere bargaining point to be dropped when the going got rough. By last week, however, this anemic talking point had grown into a full-blooded issue. In a flurry of lusty Washington argument it had spread far beyond steel, threatened to involve most of U.S. industry...