Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another Test. As Rommel's main force wriggled into the rough, well-prepared terrain of the Bizerte-Tunis area the Eighth Army could well afford to be jubilant. It had once again outmaneuvered a resilient, valiant enemy. But the men had yet to prove that Rommel was broken for good...
...successor to Mexico's rough, tough type of politico is the President's older brother, Maximino Avila Camacho. Rich, shrewd Brother Maximino has an interest in Mexico City's bull ring, as Minister of Communications has his hand in many other ventures. He is Manuel's hatchet man, the fixer, "the man to know" in Mexican politics and finance. Yet no man ever traced any venture of Maximino's to the President's door, and certainly not to his pockets. Labor distrusts Maximino, the peasants sometimes confuse him with Manuel. The President once pointed...
...Alteration May 27. It seems that an Army-Navy coalition was arranged this weekend when Carlos Cole's Army nurse returned to Chicago with a sparkler. Your Battalion Commander, Brinker, he with audible voice, is New York-bound this weekend. An added inducement to the purchase of the "Rough Roll" is the fact that 134 Waves will be represented pictorially. You may also expect your copy of the Yearbook in about one month...
Beethoven: Symphony No. I (Cleveland Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conduct ing; Columbia; 8 sides). Fifth on the list of currently available versions, Rodzinski's is rather rough, undistinguished, and not to be compared with the fine interpretations of Toscanini (Victor) and Weingartner (Columbia...
...could look upon a relief map of American ideas, it would become entirely obvious that there is no level ground in the United States. There is no common plain of basic beliefs and doctrines. The South would appear as rough terrain, unshaped and untilled; the North as chaotic, volcanic land, constantly changing, never settled. Yet our mapmakers deceive us with their shiny flat charts of common ideals, freedom for all, malice towards none. They make war on those who would alter this idealistic map and make speeches against those who might threaten their imaginative portraits. But in all their speeches...