Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time, because of the rough water, was nearly a minute and a half behind the best competitive mark in the records for the distance--a 5:51 by Yale under better racing conditions on the Schuykill River in the 1924 Olympic trials. The Elis were not represented in the Washington regatta Saturday...
Stalling Action. It was clear now that every section of the emergency measure was in for rough treatment. Democrats scurried again to recommit the bill, lost again by 40-to-42. Then Alben Barkley showed that the White House itself was squirming to get off the hook. He offered amendments that filed down the bill's sharp teeth in almost every section. He fought hard against others that would have put some teeth back in. The Senate scrambled Party lines, produced curious alliances and strange turnabouts. At one point Alben Barkley remarked: "To see the Senator from Florida [Pepper...
...gloves were off, and the rough, clenched hands which had once guided a plow through the rich Missouri soil were there for all to see. Having compared the Trainmen's Alexander Whitney and the Engineers' Alvanley Johnston to enemy agents, the President went on to denounce them in the strongest language he could use over the radio. Time & again he referred to "these two men," "Mister Whitney and Mister Johnston,"-with mounting scorn...
...owns nine hotels worth $30,000,000. Last year they had a gross income of $20,000,000, a net after taxes of $1,500,000. He first got interested in hotels in 1934. His explanation: "I was dealing in Government bonds then and the going was getting very rough. But hotels-they were practically giving them away and I didn't see how they could go much lower...
...Russia, as in the U.S. and Britain, a hooligan is an unmannerly rough, named in all likelihood for the Irish family Hooligan whose rioting through London's Southwark was immortalized in a music hall song of the period.* Later cartoonist Frederick B. Opper endeared well-meaning, disastrous Happy Hooligan to millions. The U.S. State Department says that in Soviet law hooliganism means "a mild form of disorderliness...