Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rails. The railroad plant is wearing out faster than it is being replaced. Half the freight cars and passenger coaches are more than 20 years old, locomotives are limping along without major overhauls, roadbeds are rough and many are dangerous. Yet WPB has consistently cut down the allocation of materials the railroads have set as their minimum needs. Thus the rails' plea for 2.1 million tons of new rail in 1943 was slashed to 1.5. Result: derailments are dangerously frequent. Anticipating the 15% increase in freight ton-miles in 1943, the carriers begged for at least...
...went over the log fort, Tassone expertly dropped his blade. The pillbox collapsed. Methodically, as if he were smoothing a rough spot in a road, Tassone bladed earth over it. After the battle, the hasty grave was shoveled open: twelve bodies and a large new gun were exhumed...
...Talbott is a gruff, rough political boss who has ruled the Fourth as his father-in-law (and now his enemy) Ben Johnson, 85, did before him. He stage-managed the rise of Senator Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler. Arbitrary with his patronage, he antagonized many a ward heeler, earned the nickname of "The Old Bear." No one knew why he decided to run for Congress just when the Democratic ship was rocking in Kentucky. But retiring Governor Keen Johnson (no kin to Patriarch Ben) obligingly arranged for Talbott to be nominated. At the polls Talbott was exposed to "bullet votes...
...even the road to Rome was still long and muddy, with Berlin in sight only from bomb bays. The road to Tokyo is long and watery, and every island on the way might be a Tarawa. The short, rough water-miles between Dover and Calais looked long...
...emissaries have been quietly sounding out Premier Stalin and other top Russians on such a pact. They have found them just as eager to buy as the U.S. is to sell. Negotiations have reached such a stage that Washington insiders whispered last week that President Roosevelt carried a rough draft of the pact in his pocket when he met Stalin in Teheran...