Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When legislators began arriving in Atlanta for the election session, Harris set up headquarters on the 14th floor of the Henry Grady Hotel, began plying them with bourbon, cigars, veiled threats and glittering promises. Alarmed, the Arnall-Thompson forces followed suit, began an equally rough electioneering campaign. Wild rumors floated through the hotel lobby. The most titillating: blocks of six votes for Hummon were fetching...
...late, after eleven stormy days on the midwinter North Atlantic, it would have been a brave man who greeted them with such a wheeze. It had been a voyage that the Grips holm's burly, sympathetic physician, Dr. Hans Ribbing, would like to forget. During the rough passage, he had dispensed 10,000 seasickness pills; one day had had 500 visitors to the sick...
...efficient method. And perhaps this was the way to handle veterans; hit 'em with a crisp military tone and they'll comply before the daze wears off. "You can't treat these guys too soft," he could imagine one Harvard Medical Officer sneering. "They're used to the rough stuff...
There are Borstals of varying degrees, ranging from Sherwood Prison (a fairly rough place for chronic repeaters and the toughest offenders) to North Sea Camp (more like a farm-school than a prison). English juvenile delinquents, after "weighing in" (sentencing), are sent to Wormwood Scrubs Boys' Prison for classifying. From Wormwood Scrubs they are shipped to the Borstal that best suits their record and personality. They do not always agree with the choice: a recurring Borstal headache is "scarpering" (running away...
Just before it became a ghost in 1894, the crowded, rough mining town of Aspen, Colo, had a last burst of excitement. From Smuggler Mine on a nearby slope, prospectors took out a nugget of almost pure silver weighing 2,060 pounds...