Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening's finale, Eliot proved that it has spirit if not talent in taking the measure of Dunster, 3 to 1. The game was interesting if not well played and amusing incidents cropped up continually, including some of the most remarkable examples of rough technique on ice yet seen in hockey...
This inability to find the hoop was especially noticeable in the first half, when the Jumbos hopped out to a 27 to 22 lead. The action was fast and rough, and 44 personal fouls were meted out before the contest was over...
...manner of a civil-service undertaker, frigid Sir John Anderson, Conservative member of the War Cabinet, spoke first for the Government. His dull, domineering gloom gave the House the impression that his job was to bury the Plan. Members gave him a rough ride. Next day, cherubic Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood substituted his perky optimism for the mortician's mood. Sir John had at least approved some social-security innovations, but after half an hour's perking, Sir Kingsley seemed to be suggesting that any changes whatever would be deferred until after...
...idol, Jorge Negrete, and stocky Pepe Ortiz, one of Mexico's top-rank toreadors. The film, which hangs on the usual triangle, gives Actress Marin and Actor Negrete little to do but look pretty, an assignment for which Miss Marin is admirably equipped. But the picture has a rough, lusty wit and becomes intensely exciting when Toreador Ortiz steps into the bull ring...
...plan for Episcopal-Presbyterian unity in the U.S.A. Plump, painstaking Dr. Temple was careful not to "form any judgment" as to the complex plan in question, but declared that unity would be "a very great contribution toward the cause we all have at heart." Bishop Parsons, who has had rough going because of high church opposition (with Bishop Manning in the van), was tickled pink, got the letter published in Episcopal church papers...