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Word: roughly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Water Landing. The C-54's pilot, war-toughened, black-haired Lieut. Colonel William R. Calhoun Jr. of Birmingham, Ala., ditched the plane beautifully. But the C-54 hit the rough Pacific sea with a bone-jarring crash. Its lights went out. Debris flew through the cabin. The tail snapped off and so did the left wing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Eight Minutes to Search | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...dirt parkway-yellow-uniformed soldiers half enveloped in a thin cloud of dust tramped in an endless stream. At the end of each straggling company marched a soldier with a triangular red or blue pennant; at the rear, donkeys, loaded with heavy machine guns, plodded stiff-legged over the rough street. Trucks piled with bundles and crates swirled by. "So many troops," said a fat, black-gowned merchant, standing in front of his shop; "suddenly they are marching. Where?" He shook his head. "Wo pu-tung, wo pu-tung (I do not understand, I do not understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Heavy Blow | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...necessary, he will twist an arm. Last year he called John Sonnett, who was taking over the Justice Department's anti-trust division, to point out that he was accustomed to getting anti-trust scoops. Retorted Sonnett: "Aw, go peek up a rope." Sonnett was punished with rough rides on the Merry-Go-Round. The column is equally open about rewarding those who do cooperate: some newsmen spot Pearson's sources simply by seeing who gets his backpats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Querulous Quaker | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Yard pigeons have it rough these days. First it was that owl. Now a large duck hawk has moved into the Memorial Hall tower, and a screech owl lives in Cambridge Common...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hawk, New Owl Join Yard Birds | 12/9/1948 | See Source »

...goals at 4:11 and 11:34 in a fast and rough third period gave the Crimson its 5 to 4 lead. Both times Dave Key fed the puck to his first-line wings, Carman and Bill Garrity, who closed in for goals on short shots...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Quintet Stops Northeastern, 62-43; Hockey Team Loses to Brown, 6-5 | 12/9/1948 | See Source »

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