Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rough comparisons were available, War-hawk's striking power will be much greater than the Kittihawk's six 50-caliber (half-inch) guns. ME 100-F1, one of the most recent Nazi Messerschmitts, shoots 265 Ib. of metal and explosive a minute from two 311-caliber guns and a 15-mm. cannon; the new British Hurricane 2-B sprays 330 Ib. of twelve .30 or .303 caliber; the new Hurricane 2-C, 600 Ib. from four 20-mm. cannon...
Moontide (20th Century-Fox) has what many a female cinemaddict would like to have: a rough, tough man, with romantic overtones, to take home and tame. He is seamy, sturdy, slow-burning Jean Gabin, onetime foundry worker, marine and music-hall comic, whose talent for acting natural and talking slang made him France's No. 1 male cinemactor...
...just out of high school carefully, quickly smoothes the edges of brass propeller-fittings. Three minutes are allotted to each fitting. In Detroit an ex-schoolmarm holds valve tappets for Wright engines to the light, and feels each one with her fingers. There must be no tiny scratch or rough spot-to wreck a plane, cost a life. In Ford's great bomber hatchery at Willow Run a woman flyer (Mary Elizabeth Von Mach) inspects motors for the big B-24s. In San Diego a young war widow strings numbered wires of an electrical subassembly, attaching...
...week were all doing their patriotic duty and getting themselves shipshape for war. So far they had weathered the storm well; only one or two weak sisters had foundered; enrollments and support were still high. But their hardheaded headmasters were caulking the seams and battening the hatches for a rough voyage...
Wallenstein chose the operas partly because of their typically American stories: a twangy, New Hampshire folk tale, a whimsical romance of small-town spinsters, adventures of school-age moppets caught in a hurricane, a wry story of the rough, shambling California gold-rush days. The King's Henchman, with its olde-English Aethelwold and Aelfrida, is the only .opera definitely not of the U.S. For The Second Hurricane Wallenstein has assembled a troupe of children, for Four Saints the original all-Negro cast...