Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today Pokryshkin commands a regiment-rough equivalent of a U.S. group-in Russia's most famous fighter unit (its other aces: Richkalov, 46; Glinka, 38; Lugansky, 32; Alelyukhin...
...Holy Roman Empire, a prince, a friend of Catherine II. He won signal victories against the Turks, the Poles and the French Revolutionists. Like many another great captain, Suvorov ended his days in defeat and temporary disgrace. But he is a natural hero of the Soviet Union-a rough-spoken soldier's soldier, who disdained foppery and diplomatic delicacy...
...ship crashed 20 yards from the inspection party and skidded into a ditch, scraping the bombs along the rough ground. Among the brass hats who hit the dirt and hugged it were Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham and Air Vice Marshal Harry Broadhurst. Said the philosophical pilot, emerging from the wreckage...
...three of the tunes in Follow the Girls have a kind of rough zip; but not one sounds fresh, not one proves hummable...
Long and Rough. For Pan Am's "chosen instrument," which Josephson contends is but "air imperialism" and the breeder of future international troubles, Josephson would substitute a modified freedom of the air, corresponding in a general way with freedom of the seas, i.e., a system giving all nations equal access to airports. He argues that the U.S., because of its need for overseas bases, would have much to gain by this system and little to lose. But he is not optimistic about the ease of establishing a workable freedom of the air. The U.S. has, willy-nilly, placed...