Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lovely day to look at the view. The bright sun poured down on San Francisco's blue bay and on the island of Alcatraz set in the middle of it, like a rough, unpolished stone. Private Jacob Weber set up a telescope on the Aquatic Park pier and let sightseers peer through...
...periods of quiescence Mauna Loa is a rough-surfaced, gentle-sloped mountain, 13,680 ft. high, with a hole in its head. But in eruption it is a thing out of Dante's Inferno, frothing with burning gas, squirting great cherry-red fountains from a shimmering pool of lava. Sometimes the lava overflows, oozes down the mountain; sometimes it blows a vent through the wall of the cone below the crest; and again it may rise in the crater well, put on incomparable pyrotechnics, then retire under a hardening shell...
...that was rough...
...game, rough all the way, almost got out of control several times when questionable blocks and illegal stick play were employed by members of both teams. Tough body checking and wild scrapping for loose balls were the orders...
...word whose definition even Webster side steps. Rough approximation of its present U.S. meaning: anti-right-wing Republicans, anti-Southern Democrats...