Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Banging Gavel. But before its final passage, interim aid had rough going. In the House, Republican isolationists had worked furiously to slash or hamstring the bill. Majority Leader Charlie Halleck of Indiana led the attack...
...second day there was a rough moment in the Piazza Colonna when police jeeps roared through a demonstrating crowd, swinging rubber truncheons on Communists and curious alike, and sending pedestrians frantically climbing up pillars. But there were no shots, no dead, no seriously injured. That evening, with the strike falling away under them, the Chamber of Labor bowed to the inevitable, called...
...strength comes as a result of adversity, the skaters may expect to rebound from a rough time this Christmas to find smoother sailing in February and March against their traditional Ivy League foes. Right now such future opponents as Yale and Dartmouth loom as heavy favorites, with Princeton as an even-money choice...
Attack was the word all evening, Jack Lavelle making 28 saves in all and Revins 24. Play frequently went for minutes at a time without a whistle to keep up the fast pace. Only six penalties were doled out although the action was rough on both sides
...student has a smattering of verbs and vocabulary, but little idea of what a study of language is for. And unless he goes on to higher courses--which he rarely does--he will have to find out on his own. Most other departments try to give their beginners a rough idea, at least, of the importance of their field as a whole, and how a particular course fits into it. But in the language program, a student plunges immediately into the mechanics of memorizing technical details. He reads Voltaire for exercise in reading French, and for little else. In this...