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Word: roughly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When even BU, which turned Wednesday's game into an alley fight, terms Army "a rough team," it stands to reason that tonight won't be an easy night for the Crimson. Add to this the fact that traditionally liberal West Point officials will be on hand, and matters become even worse...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Sextet, Minus Carman, Plays Cadets at West Point Today | 2/12/1949 | See Source »

Frankie Costello is an underworldling with a difference: he has more money than most bank presidents and he never seems to be around when any rough stuff is going on. This enables him to maintain a snug Manhattan apartment and a big house in the Long Island countryside, to contribute to worthy causes, and to control as many Tammany politicians as he finds convenient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: How to Meet Better People | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...rough skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Socialist Romanticism | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Jimmy hooked his drive toward the rough, but the ball hit a spectator and caromed back onto the fairway. His next, a strong approach shot headed for the back-of-beyond, hit a second spectator and dropped on the edge of the green. Demaret took a par for the hole and gained another stroke on Hogan. Jimmy sealed the victory on the 18th with a 30-ft. putt for a birdie, a 67 and first-prize money of $2,000. Hogan missed an easy putt for a 70. Grinned Jimmy, who would be riding the rest of the winter circuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Circuit Rider | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Died. Theodore R. Middleton, 52, hard-bitten sheriff of Kentucky's "bloody Harlan" County during the '30s, famed for his rough treatment of United Mine Workers organizers; of a heart attack; in Lexington, Ky. In 1937, Middleton admitted to the La Follette Civil Liberties Investigations Committee that he owned coal company stock, and that most of his 370-odd deputies were paid by the coal companies (documents showed that one-quarter of them had criminal records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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