Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...argued that we have passed the stage in the war where national service is necessary. But our soldiers and sailors know that this is not true. We are going forward on a long, rough road-and, in all journeys, the last miles are the hardest. . . . We must mobilize our total resources. The national war program calls for the employment of more people in 1944 than...
...Poet Gerard de Nerval sent a friend to Dumas. His name was Auguste Maquet. He brought Dumas a rough draft of an historical novel, soon published in two volumes as Le Bonhomme Buvat by Alexandre Dumas. Said Dumas: "The two most amusing volumes I have ever written." Maquet's name did not appear on the books. He got about...
...Maquet brought Dumas the rough draft of a novel about a Guardsman named D'Artagnan. The Three Musketeers had been born...
...incarnal resemblance to Eddie Dowling, who has often appeared in Saroyan plays. The inevitable Saroyan drunk is combined with the familiar and equally all-knowing, only partly-articulate Saroyan immigrant in the person of Casimir the Hungarian, who is splendidly portrayed by Constantine Pappas. The supporting cast has its rough spots, but Saroyan is Saroyan is Saroyan...
Navy's Pride, Navy's Woe. Seabees are a rough & ready outfit, hardboiled, hard-driving ex-civilians who sneer at protocol and red tape and are always taking short cuts instead of "going through channels." They have had their tiffs with the always proper Navy. Stevedores, handling all sorts of supplies for the fighting forces, sometimes cut in on such items as new shoes, jackets, a case or two of Coke. Proud of the work they are doing, the Seabees have sometimes blown their horn too brassily for regular Navy ears. But they have proved both to Army...