Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...police station, Senator Taylor was booked for "disorderly conduct" (for violating Alabama's segregation laws) and searched. When he protested, a cop growled: "Keep your mouth shut, buddy." Released on bond, he was ordered to stand trial this week. Said Senator Taylor: "They treated me very rough-anything but gentlemanly. God help the ordinary...
...Waterfront. Along the rough and bawdy Buenos Aires waterfront, in lamplit saloons and "dancing academies," the tango had long been danced by prostitutes and lawless toughies. It got into society by accident.To clean out the toughs, vigilante groups of rich young Argentines invaded the waterfront, stayed to learn the tango, later carried it to the ballrooms of France. Transplanted, the tango retained its sad, metallic tempo-one, two, three, pause-and continued to be danced by automatons whose torsos remained in expressionless rapture while their legs swept nimbly through the corte (cross step) and corrida (promenade). Actor Rudolph Valentino showed...
Once in chronological order by chapters, his papers are set in type as a rough working draft. Galleys in hand, Churchill then dictates to secretaries who work in relays, filling in his transitions, anecdotes and explanations. Two are always on call for odd-hours dictation: in the 45-minute drive from London to Chartwell he may reel off 800 words of text. (But sometimes he labors for hours over a paragraph.) A man of enormous vitality, he may dictate as early as 8 a.m. and as late...
Bender has, as yet, found no rough sports on the student side of the question. "No students complaints have come through to me," he stated, "and I have had no reports of trouble through the Radcliffe office. Apparently there's been no bad feeling, and no funny business...
...rough game, mainly because the players discovered they could get away with a trip or a slash now and then. However, when Charley Gregg collected a two minute sentence for trying to dent a Tufts player's helmet, most of the Crimson violence evaporated...