Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Under rough and rugged Major General Lewis H. Brereton, the Ninth was formed in the China-Burma-India theater, moved to the Middle East when Rommel banged at the back door of Egypt.* It supported the British Eighth Army as it advanced westward, from El Alamein...
Despite these moves and decisions, the nation's capital still had a hollow feeling. This came from the belief that U.S.-Soviet relations had reached a point of new delicacy. Shaken by the rough-&-tumble diplomatic maneuvers of the Soviet Union, the Administration was worried lest a considerable segment of the U.S. might come to feel that the U.S. was fighting merely to make Europe safe for Russia. Such a feeling might be disastrous in an election year...
British voters have handed the Churchill Government's Coalition candidates rough treatment in recent by-elections. This has led some Americans to a belief that a majority of Britons want a general election now. Last week the Gallup poll...
Sixty strong, they pushed into the Ohio Governor's small suite in the Mayflower Hotel. Here, after all the humdrum bureau interviews, was fair game: a real, live presidential candidate on a self-built bandwagon. The pink-cheeked candidate looked as if he expected a rough ride...
...wildernesses of the western U.S. On the snow-covered trail of the biggest cat on the North American continent, sometimes grown to nine or ten feet in length from gorging on deer, the hunter must make as much as 30 miles a day. Creeping along rock ledges, plunging through rough timber, always pressing to keep his dogs within sound, he often follows a trail for days before he makes the kill...