Word: roughly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...keeping things on a friendly basis, such smart boxers as Bob Pastor and Billy Conn induced the Brown Bomber to toy with them for as many as eleven and 13 rounds before the inevitable kill. But Tami (rhymes with mammy) Mauriello, the tubby Bronx challenger, decided to play rough. At the opening bell of last week's title fight he walked out from his corner, took one look at the overconfident Louis, and pitched a right with the urgency of a man unloading a hand grenade. It connected, and the world's heavyweight champion went reeling across...
...East-West struggle for Germany and Austria, the heart of Europe's peace problem, was being waged in Germany and Austria. Paris was only haggling over the peripheries of the peace-Italy, Finland, the Balkans. But they were rough edges, and the Big Four had left many a major issue unsettled in the treaty drafts: the Italo-Yugoslav and Greco-Bulgarian borders, the exact status of Trieste, reparations, Danubian free trade, the disposition of the Italian colonies. Of these problems the delegates of the 21 nations at Paris had not yet solved a single...
...grabbed by an OPAster and threatened with a "slapper" (a blackjack-like weapon of thick pieces of leather sewn together-see cut) because OPAsters thought he was trying to get away. He was not actually hit, and was later released. But OPA's new treat-'em-rough tactics, reminiscent of the notorious "prohibition officer" hoodlums of the dry era, were bound to make new enemies...
...normal jet cruising speed, which is well above 300 m.p.h., every air effect is sharply exaggerated. "A patch of rough air," said an Army pilot, "which would be slightly jostling to another plane, suddenly slams you against your belts. You thank your crash helmet for absorbing the shock when the canopy smacks downward...
...rough and ready competition of the early years of this country and of Harvard, he asserted, should no longer be a part of a society where a sense of social responsibility has come into our understanding of freedom...