Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trade unionists whom it has asked to accept wage freezes (TIME, Feb. 16). Fortified by Marshall Plan aid, which Cripps hailed as "a light and hope to the freedom-loving peoples of the world," Britain's Socialist Government felt that it was safely over some of the political rough spots, too. Russia's grab for Europe had rallied even most left-wing Laborite rebels behind the government...
...through interceptions or fumbles, the Green players get a chance to run their own attack. Scrimmages are rugged. "It's funny," muses Valpey, "how many of the boys have already discovered there are other things they'd rather do than play football. But if you think this is rough, wait till next fall...
Roughest & Readiest. Stanley Cup tempers were flaring. The Bruins, two games down to the Maple Leafs and faced with elimination, were playing rough. The vaultlike arena rumbled with the noise of battle. Fist fights broke out on the ice, and fans started another by jumping three Toronto players and their coach at the end of the game (which Toronto won, 5 to 1). When Weston Adams, Bruins president, entered the Toronto dressing room to see if the players were injured, he was pelted with profanity by Connie Smythe, Maple Leafs managing director, and ordered out of the room...
Connie Smythe could hardly complain about rough hockey. He tells his Maple Leafs: "If you don't try, you don't make mistakes. And the guy who doesn't make mistakes is not worth a damn." Smythe's definition of a mistake is being clapped into the penalty box. His Maple Leafs, the rowdiest team on ice, last year broke a National Hockey League record by spending 669 minutes in the penalty box, and broke their own record again this season-by nearly 100 minutes. The Leafs also happen to be about the best hockey team...
...After a rough and tumble fight in North End early yesterday morning, police captured Theodore Voutiritsa, 38, who they named as the last of the "Co-operative Gang," part of a long-existent crime fellowship that was responsible for the January 9 Coop stickup...