Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortcut. Loy Harrison, his 275 pounds sweating uncomfortably behind the wheel of an old Pontiac, started on the road toward home while Roger Malcolm chattered happily. Six miles out from Monroe, Harrison turned off on a rough, sun-drenched, red-clay shortcut between the cotton fields...
...friendly" terms with Russia, building up their export trade, following a Red-Green domestic policy that has not yet resulted in large-scale nationalization of industry or redistribution of land. The Finns are moving slowly and quietly, like a man tiptoeing for fear he'll wake a rough-&-ready neighbor...
...with Dr. Frances L. Hg; Harper, $4) is a composite picture of 50 children of "high average or superior" intelligence from comfortably fixed families. Most of the youngsters went from the Clinic's guidance nursery to elementary public school. Dr. Gesell intends their behavior-biographies as rough guides for parents and teachers of the Five to Ten group. But he warns: "Every child has an individual pattern of growth, unique to him ... he travels by his own tailor-made time schedule." His findings...
Near by, built directly against the rough mountainside, was the Festspielhaus, through whose cavernous yard had boomed the theatrical damnation of Dr. Faust. The G.I. metamorphosis had turned it into a movie house, nostalgically named the Roxy. And around Salzburg's steep Bierjodelgasse (Beer-Yodel-Street) G.I.s noisily scouted for beer gardens...
Chicago's raucous dailies have never outgrown their Front Page days; last week they romped through the Heirens story like street urchins frolicking at an open hydrant. Scuffling for scoops in a mad, midsummer rough-&-tumble, they whooped it up as the crime news of the century, unloaded extra after extra on willing Chicagoans...