Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patton believed in God . . . [His] style was rough, but he combined idealism and realism. He talked to God as if he admired Him. He let God into his inmost secret heart, and recognized his own human frailty...
...Rough & Tumble. Hustling Hubert Humphrey doesn't fit the usual conception of a U.S. Senator. A glib, jaunty spellbinder with a "listen-you-guys" approach, he talks and looks more like a high-school science teacher who coaches basketball on the side. He has the cyclonic attack of an advertising salesman. A charter member (and this week the new national chairman) of Americans for Democratic Action, a coalition of leftist, non-Communist intellectuals and displaced New Dealers, he has little use for the old party-machine school of politics...
...that, he has, like most of his fellow freshmen, already made his mark in the rough & tumble of practical politics. He Was twice mayor of Minneapolis, the man who helped put together Minnesota's humpty-dumpty Democratic-Farmer-Labor ticket, the clever and determined tactician who led and won the civil rights fight at the Democratic Convention last summer. One thing, above all, explains his way of thinking: all of his adult life has been spent in the era of Franklin Roosevelt. His dad, and the Dust Bowl taught him most of what he knows...
...been a young businessman in a hurry. To work his way through college (his banker father had gone broke in the depression), Chuck Percy ran a wholesale business supplying the university's fraternities with food, coal, furniture and linen. He also held two other jobs, and captained the rough, tough water polo team. In the summer vacation of 1937 he took a job at $12 a week in Chicago's Bell & Howell Co. (cameras). For the next 11½ years he was in & out of Bell & Howell, but was seldom out of the mind of its president...
...increase in taxes is an economic blunder of the first magnitude. The President is apparently unaware that the economic situation of the country has materially changed during the last six months from one of inflation to one in which inflationary and deflationary influences are in rough balance...