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Word: roughly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...within reach for a close-up shot, and Henry, a friendly sort, put an arm around her. When he put the other arm around her and started to wrestle, she looked anxiously at the keeper and asked: "Don't you think he's getting a bit rough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 14, 1947 | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...love to Angelica. Pamela Brown plays the latter with the necessary restraint to make the character credible beneath the neat stylization. Her quiet, satirical mugging helps give the standard part another dimension. Expertly entangled among the various intrigues of plot are Robert Flemyng and Jessie Evans, as two rather rough-hewn characters, and John Kidd as an old many-times-cuckolded astronomer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 7/11/1947 | See Source »

...aircraft company, it is fairly well diversified. Its P. & W. motors are being used in the DC-6, Boeing's new Stratocruiser and in nine other new planes now going into production. But the smooth ride has not lulled Rentschler and friends into thinking there may not be rough air ahead, stirred up by jet engines. Two months ago, United acquired the right to build and sell Rolls-Royce's turbojet engine, the Nene. In addition, P. & W. is developing its own jet motor. If, and when, reciprocating engines become obsolete, United intends to be ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Prize for Conservatism | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...title of "Blood and Swash." Another time she is left in the lurch in timehonored tradition by a smooth apple of a cad. played with spirit by George Sanders. The Tierney trips through all her troubles unobtrusively enough, mouthing her dialogue in a soft, damp voice, while Rex Harrison, rough, bluff, and sentimental, steals the show as a happy inhabitant of the happy hunting grounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 6/24/1947 | See Source »

That attitude got him through the tough grind which made good golfers spray tee shots into the wire-haired rough, even quit in disgust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hard Luck Sammy | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

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