Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took off in the converted Douglas A26 bomber from Chicago's Douglas Airport at 12:53 p.m. E.S.T. Thursday. With him was that piece of Winnie Mae's fabric. Soon he was in rough weather...
...their thunderous noise, the finely tuned machines soon began to show signs of fallibility. Once around the three-mile course and slightly in the lead, Tempo VI hit a floating obstacle in the rough water, ripping the fragile skin off its starboard front sponson; Lombardo had to slow up to prevent shipping too much water. Notre Dame, the 1937 Gold Cup winner, went on to win the first heat, then had engine trouble and missed the second entirely. Albin Fallon's Miss Great Lakes had engine trouble, fell behind; three other boats dropped out altogether...
Last week Cape Breton's Scots gathered to celebrate their heritage. In a small clearing along the National Park's Cabot Trail, a reproduction of a shieling-a rough stone, thatch-roofed shepherd's cabin-was opened as a shelter for picnickers. And at Ste. Anns, Inverness County, 3,000 Scots from Nova Scotia's clans swarmed onto a high bluff overlooking the Gulf of St. Lawrence for the ninth annual Gaelic Mod (rhymes with code)-a festival of Celtic folklore and culture...
...Hand. Ironing out rough spots is an old story to Fernandes. He was a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, to the Reparations Commission, to the League of Nations. As one of the jurists appointed to draw up the statute for the Permanent Court of International Justice, he worked out a formula that won support for the Court from both great & small powers. Those were great days for Fernandes. He has not forgotten them, and somewhat wistfully has hoped that at Rio oldtime formality could be recaptured by the wearing of white ties at plenary session...
...rough-ribbing Bawl Street Journal, annual parody published by the Bond Club of New York...