Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bankers are wise in picking the purposes and setting the conditions of investment and unless U.S. politicians become skilled in understanding and explaining the tariff policies that must accompany foreign investment. Yet, beckoning on to such an effort, the opportunities for productive investment spot the world map like huge rough jewels. The prospector need only pick up a few samples to realize their value as cut and polished stones...
...hear sniffs of derision?" he asks. "What . . . if the sheep leave a hoof print to spoil your lie? What if the greens are too slow or uneven to make perfect putting possible? What if, in the absence of rough, the man who slices has as good a chance as you? My answer is that you, Mr. Sniffer, are probably the man who slices and in your heart you'd be extremely happy to find that you didn't have to lose three strokes three feet off the fairway...
...Rough, tough Rodolfo Graziani, second Viceroy of Ethiopia, who was chased by Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell across Egypt and Libya during the winter campaign...
...Gallery. Cross is tart about some of the Government bigwigs, but essentially kind to most of them: > Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King is "Wordy Willie," but he gets full marks as a statesman and as the ablest rough-&-tumble politician on the North American Continent...
...members of Dog would like to go on record as saying that it was a lot of fun playing Host to the New Company Easy on May 1st. We now have a rough idea of what all those papers were that we signed and recopied the first day we arrived . . . at least we have seen them once again. "It wasn't like the Maypole Dance we had back in Minnesota," quoth Mervin Lysing, "Not with the size of some of those Bags I toted around...