Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real rough hockey and a possible brawl is what you're looking for in the way of entertainment, by all means wend your way down to the Boston Arena tonight. The varsity hockey team and B.U., the two contenders whose most recent skirmish resulted last year in 58 minutes of penalties and four serious injuries, face off at 9 p.m. in the second half of the season's first hockey double bill...
...sprang full-blown, much like Canasta. The true aficionado knows at least a few of the regular contes-around quite so fast as the men, who hit 35 m.p.h., but they provide more action, past performances and thus he knows who is good and who isn't, who the rough one are and who the fast ones are. This, of course, heightens the interest when he actually gets to see his heroes in action...
Scott journeyed to native encampments on the wild thornbush plains. He bumped over rough motor tracks, got lost in deserts, sat with chiefs and councillors and took down their words. The tribesmen deputized him to speak for them to the outside world, sold some of their cattle to pay for his trips to sessions...
...last week the Denver Area Welfare Council, without whose approval no organization can get community chest funds, had recognized Laradon as a member. That was the first help Joe had had, but it might not be enough. "Sometimes when the going gets rough," says he, "I wonder if the whole thing's worth while. But when I look at these kids, my own and all the others, I see that...
Moviemaker Rossen, a short, chunky man of 41, is also expert at a harsher realism: the art of getting your own way in Hollywood. By combining talent with a tough-mindedness born of his rough & tumble boyhood on Manhattan streets, Rossen has won the scenaristis goal of controlling his own picture right through to the final editing...