Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back from a desperate search for a human-interest story, a Minor sport-writer wrote: "Ed Barrow, the Babe's rough, tough baseball father, pulled up the shade on the years to let the sunshine of the Bambino's rollicking history pour through the room of his tree-shrouded Rye home as he abstractedly nodded: 'Babe Ruth was just a human citizen-a human American citizen.'" Westbrook Pegler, putting his worst (kickless) foot forward, told how Ruth, "a burly oaf [who] could suck half a pound of tobacco and spit through his ears," had autographed...
...Rough Campaign. The boss had strung along with ex-Auctioneer Jim McCord, out to get a third term, for Governor. This time, for the first time in 20 years, Crump's support was a liability: all over Tennessee, people had finally become fed up with one-man rule from Memphis. They were also fed up with McCord, mainly because he had jammed a 2% sales tax through the legislature...
Even for Tennessee, the campaign was rough. Boss Crump alienated countless voters by his unrestrained use of invective. He spent $18,000 a day for huge newspaper ads to revile Browning and Kefauver. He repeated old slurs on Browning ("Of the 206 bones in his body, there isn't one that is genuine . . . His heart has beaten over two billion times without a sincere beat"). He called Kefauver an "oxblood Red" and "pet coon." Kefauver turned the attack to his own advantage by donning a coonskin cap and invading the boss's own Shelby County (Memphis) five times...
...General MacArthur had used rough and leathery General Eichelberger as his forward-passer and end-runner; from Buna through the Philippines, West Pointer Eichelberger had made more than 55 invasion landings. Few field generals had been as daring, successful or relentless against the Japs: none had commanded so many amphibious assaults on the enemy...
...Times's tabloid baby will probably be christened the Mirror. When it toddles out into the afternoon field against Hearst's rough & tumble Herald & Express, Los Angeles may see its lustiest newspaper scrap in a generation. Momentarily on the sidelines, rival Publisher Boddy told the Times to take heart: "Nearly a quarter of a century ago," he wrote, "we adopted a penniless, tattered little brat that was languishing in bankruptcy . . . It kept on keeping on until it has, I fear, become somewhat respectable. So chin up, Norman, it can be done...